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Caught Red-Handed!

Wendy Stocker on May 26, 2018

One of the pitfalls about being a Developer is you're eventually going to screw something up, and royally. It may not be today or tomorrow, but tru...
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Wendy Stocker

Hahah that's great!

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Samuel

This is precisely why I always use "we" instead of "I" when talking about bugs. It makes the person who caused it feel more comfortable discussing it. As a team doing code reviews, "we" all missed it, not one of us, but all of us! Pointing fingers only causes mistrust and is likely to cause the same kind of bugs again.

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Rafal Pienkowski

I totally agree with you, Samuel. Especially in agile projects, we should always say "we" instead of "I". We're working as a team and bug is always "our" not "my" problem. As it is mentioned in the article, every team member failed: devs,QAs. We shouldn't take this personally. Maybe this advice helps someone.

Cheers

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Wendy Stocker

Interesting approach!

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Frank Rosner

That's a fly, not a bug!

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Wendy Stocker

Suspension of disbelief.

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Ben Halpern

The famous "bug" from Grace Hopper lore was a moth, also not a "true bug".

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Wendy Stocker

Free images were not kind lol!