Paging the Apple Fanbois

Looks like you're being the subject of, what's the phrase? Oh yes:

"They treat software release as a beta test!"

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/8304229.stm

 

That's not all they need to fix.

 

took a blunt brush and painted...

Name me one software company where the QA department can overrule the sales
manager(s) and hold back a release because they haven't gotten the number of
bugs down to a "reasonable" level.

I'm sick of it.

 

Maybe they could learn something from the Windows 7 Public beta.

 

Very little software gets properly released, most of it just escapes.

 

Mine! A "reasonable" level is zero known bugs, & a release doesn't go
out until we get there. Sometimes that means all hands on deck for
stupid amounts of hours if we have to hit a deadline for regulatory
reasons, but such is life.

 

While I agree with most of the sentiments, it's worth pointing out that
this article reaches the heady levels of accuracy of most of the BBC's
technology reporting.

Even a cursory amount of research by the Beeb's 'reporters' would have
revealed that this is nothing, really, to do with Snow Leopard

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/10/13/snow_leopard_data_eating_bug_predates_now_leopard/

Not a nice bug at all, though.

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In November 2007. And anyway, back the **** up always.

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As you all know, I'm an open Applephile. And all I can say is...


....back the **** up before performing a major system upgrade.

 

After my last HDD crash, I now back up every hour.

<pats time capsule>

 

That's over the top, unless you're writing software for aeroplanes or
weaponry or nuclear power stations.

If you reckon you can only release your software when it has zero known
bugs in it then it just means you haven't found them all. No software
has zero defects, it's just a fact of life.

 

Which is fine until you Mac goes in for the logic board to be replaced
(mine was one of the MacBook Pro units with the dodgy Nvidia 8600
chipset that gets hotter than a hot thing and eventually burns out..)
and you want to get hold of that data from a non-Mac.

Hint - it isn't possibe. Not over a network anyway.

Phil

 

The operative word is *known*. It's quite possible. IME however, most
companies opt for a risk / benefit analysis of the known bugs.


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Ooh, nasty.

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There is a tendency for developers not to report or discuss issues if
everything is treated as a "stop ship" bug.

 

"Those who use backup services including the Mac's own Time Machine can
restore their lost data"

There seems to be a lesson there somewhere.

 

Investment Management, so potentially very, very expensive if we get
things wrong, especially as we have direct interfaces to various
banking & trading systems.

If they're "known", we obviously have found them. Bugs do of course
appear over time, but they're almost always related to dodgy migrated
data, or users doing things that nobody could predict.

 

Well, we have a testing team who are accountable for finding defects.
Wouldn't trust the developers.

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s/nobody could predict/ were not predicted


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You can do it by extracting the drive out of the timeport and
physically mounting it on a linux box as a HPF+ drive and jumping
through some hoops. But since I should be getting my Mac back in a
couple of days I couldn't be bothered.

Phil.