KalOfTheRathi
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Posted - 2015.05.02 02:19:00 -
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Sgt Kirk wrote:I'd like to know why they partially repaired them for like a month then broke it again by doing the same thing that broke it in the first place.
Usually CCP's circular logic takes place over the course of a minimum of 6 months. That cycle ended in a month exactly.
I am taking a bit of a gamble here. But what the heck, this is the internet and someone asked a question.
This is a common problem in many software driven organizations. Imagine the following:
Artist/developer has feature responsibility.
Adjusts feature to handle condition, solve a problem, fix a map, etc.
Release cycle hits.
Either the resources are pulled from the workstation of the developer
Or the developer pushed the resources to the server.
QA, very brief is just a patch and limited team (the case here).
Developer B solves their whizzy feature,
Excitement overwhelms reality and Dev B pushes his entire workstation to the server.
QA, again brief but it misses the fact that Dev B pushed an older version of whatever the original Dev pushed.
Bug. Forums tracked and now someone has to do real QA.
Is this a real problem?
Is it just overwritten resources?
Root cause might find this, less likely the smaller the team is.
QA sends report (email) to explain the problem and Management has to reassign resources to the previously fixed item that is now an actual bug. Grumpy faces. Why? This has to be reinserted into the project schedule. And tested - again.
Not saying this is the problem, just saying I rarely get up in arms about these types of issues anymore.
Anecdote:
I tested products back in the W98 era. Our products had to work with the new Windows, but MSFT was releasing a new candidate every other day. Which meant I had to retest the items I was tracking and ... you guessed it. Every other release the bug that had my name on it came back. But MSFT deletes the bug DB every time they release. So, I got to re-enter the bug every other release, which got to be every other day. Finally it was fixed and stayed fixed. Note that our product never changed, it was a MSFT problem the entire time. Search for horror stories regarding MSFT source code control.
Fun times. To this day I hate flying spaceships inside mines.
My favorite tank is a Lightning. Just sayin.
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