how (not?) to report a software bug
My software team started testing the next release of our software at work today. One of the objectives of the release was to merge our inventory management software with our vending software, which required a merger of the product database, not an easy task. I assigned the task of testing the reports before and after the merge to one of the new guys. I gave him the instructions - any time you see a different number in one of the sales reports, submit a bug report.
After several hours of testing, I hadn’t seen any bugs come in from him, so I assumed it was going well. No news is good news, right?
Today a bug report comes in. The text -
Report Totals do not match AT ALL between Inventory Mirror and Inventory
Staging.
Guess that about sums it up.