Bugs UnPlugged
Posted by Jeu George on June 8th, 2006
How long can a bug go undetected, especially when it’s in a place that is widely used. How about 9 years? This one in the standard binary search in JDK was caused by the infamous overflow error. When the code was originally written, testing something like this was probably infeasible.
That brings up an interesting question, Should you keep testing even after you ship?
June 10th, 2006 at 5:54 pm
Testing is becoming crucial for many enterprise solutions. For every known bug there are three hidden. Rework costs consume more than 60% of project costs. Time to market pressures leads us to ship the product with bugs that will take another lifecycle. Quality suffers, at the cost of business.