The Inverse Law of Bug Complexity
The harder a bug is to track down, the simpler the fix tends to be.
Coined 2004/09/16
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Created: April 19, 2006
Last Modified: April 19, 2006
Author: James Tauber
Last Modified: April 19, 2006
Author: James Tauber
Blair Simpkins on Dec. 20, 2006:
James,
As a professional programmer myself going on 20 years I’m a firm believer in Extreme programming in as much as I have been able to dramatically reduce the lines of code and consequently occurrences of blunder bugs. I still get hit with the occasional logic bug of course.