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    The Mythical Man-Month : Bugs!

    I've started studying software development recently and for my class I've been reading a book called The Mythical Man-Month. It's a great book, and it's giving me a pretty good overview of the field. Pretty easy read too. Actually, some of the stuff I've been reading about have me thinking of Redlynx and Trials Evolution, which is why I felt like sharing some interesting information. ( Interesting for me anyway )

    The book has much to say about debugging and maintenance... For example, testing and debugging a piece of software generally takes about 1/2 of development time, while the actually coding takes about 1/6 of the time. Testing time is almost always underestimated in a project's schedule, which makes it late!

    This is what I found to be especially interesting:

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    This information is new to me, but I think it relates to all the talk about bugs in Trials Evolution... Debugging is hard!

    Also, has anyone from Redlynx read this book? What do you think of it?
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    Re: The Mythical Man-Month : Bugs!

    That reminds me of my group project for Thermal Design. We thought we had our Matlab code working properly, but we noticed our results weren't matching up with everyone's hand calcs. Our code was due at 8:00 the next morning, so we worked through the night, I think about 17 hours straight, to try and fix it. At around 6:00 am, we finally found the main issue, a simple typo .
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    Re: The Mythical Man-Month : Bugs!

    Dang... It's almost always a simple mistake.
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    Re: The Mythical Man-Month : Bugs!

    Too much smart in this thread.

    Take it down a notch you guise.
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    Dang edumacations
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    Re: The Mythical Man-Month : Bugs!

    Doesnt matter how many times I see it, I still keep reading this thread title as "The Mythical Man-Moth : Bugs!"
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    Re: The Mythical Man-Month : Bugs!

    Originally Posted by Barrybarfly
    Doesnt matter how many times I see it, I still keep reading this thread title as "The Mythical Man-Moth : Bugs!"
    I kept thinking the same, until I found out what the heck a man-month was.
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