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Old 09-20-2004, 05:52 PM   #90
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Sorry, I feel like a nitpicker today, but actually the key thing to quashing bugs is not identifying them, but being able to reliably reproduce them.
Tree, I had lunch with eleven programmers today (it was a birthday lunch for one of them) and I asked that question and all of them agreed on identifying the bug as the toughest part of squashing it. Not one of them mentioned reproducing it, and these were mostly people who run mission-critical apps where there is a standing Zero Defects policy. Maybe they count reproducability as part of the identfication process, but still...
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