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For questions relating to the process of developing software.

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When does bugfixing become overkill, if ever?

You have to be pragmatic. If the error is unlikely to be triggered in the real world and the cost to fix is high, I doubt many people would consider it a good use of resources to fix. On that basis …
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When should development branches be created?

I'm not fond of arbitrary branches i.e. Fred's bugfixes or Harry's bugfixes. I'm much more comfortable with one (independent) feature one branch which allows multiple developers to operate on one fea …
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Is this limitation of Test Driven Development (and Agile in general) practically relevant?

One thing that nobody's added so far is that the "TDD Development" you are describing is very abstract and unrealistic. It may be like that in a mathematical application where you are optimising an a …
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Can a system be implemented with a waterfall process and then be implemented using a phased ...

No I've worked on Waterfall projects/programmes that had many phases and sub-projects all being delivered separately (not as frequently as a typical agile project but still not a "Big Bang"). Each c …
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