Timeline for A bug was found in my code. Should I migrate the application as planned, or focus on patching the bug?
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| Oct 29, 2021 at 20:52 | comment | added | Doc Brown | @moonman239: these two aspects aren't always independent from each other, this is pretty case dependent. | |
| Oct 29, 2021 at 17:42 | comment | added | moonman239 | So, in other words, you don't care how likely the user is to encounter the bug, you worry about how the bug would affect the user if discovered?\ | |
| Oct 29, 2021 at 9:11 | history | edited | Doc Brown | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Oct 28, 2021 at 5:45 | comment | added | Doc Brown | @moonman239: "How do you determine a bug has a high risk of making core features fully unusable" - by trying to understand the user's processes and requirements, and making analysis how the bug impacts them. Also, by looking if there are easys-to-find workarounds for the bug. When in doubt, ask someone who knows the user's processes better than you, ideally a user, or whoever in your development team has the responsibility for this - in some teams, this could be the "product owner", in others a business analyst, and in others, just you. | |
| Oct 27, 2021 at 21:13 | comment | added | moonman239 | Another thing: How do you determine a bug has a high risk of making core features fully unusable? Do you factor in an estimate of how likely a user is to encounter said bug? (I'm actually thinking it might be a good idea to implement some sort of bug tracker so I can detect occurrences of any bug and have some data to help me decide if it's worth fixing) | |
| Oct 27, 2021 at 19:35 | comment | added | Doc Brown | @moonman239: another term for "main feature", "central feature", something which is essential to your application. For example, on this site, some of the core features are the functionality of posting questions and answers, voting. Something I would not consider to be a core feature are getting the links shown to "The Overflow Blog". | |
| Oct 27, 2021 at 19:11 | comment | added | moonman239 | What’s a core feature? | |
| Oct 27, 2021 at 19:11 | comment | added | moonman239 | Alright. That’s what I’ve been thinking - good to know I have someone to back me up. | |
| Oct 27, 2021 at 19:10 | vote | accept | moonman239 | ||
| Oct 27, 2021 at 19:04 | history | edited | Doc Brown | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Oct 27, 2021 at 18:56 | history | answered | Doc Brown | CC BY-SA 4.0 |