Re:No dogs were harmed in the making of this app
by Elucalidavah on Saturday November 04, 2023 @02:58AM
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> and see if it happens again
The "re-run to reproduce" isn't even the most peculiar part of software engineering; it's "we don't look at what has been tried before".
In the OP story example, there's this part: "One time we added ventilation holes to reduce heat, but they were just big enough for wasps to nest in".
In a ideal world, the hardware engineers are supposed to know to not have any holes larger than a few millimeters, and other such things. Whereas the software engineers are (yet) not supposed to know much of anything like that. The most prominent example I can think of is "remember to add an index to the database when adding a new type of query to the app", as load testing that would catch it tends not to be done on each and every release.
The "re-run to reproduce" isn't even the most peculiar part of software engineering; it's "we don't look at what has been tried before".
In the OP story example, there's this part: "One time we added ventilation holes to reduce heat, but they were just big enough for wasps to nest in". In a ideal world, the hardware engineers are supposed to know to not have any holes larger than a few millimeters, and other such things. Whereas the software engineers are (yet) not supposed to know much of anything like that. The most prominent example I can think of is "remember to add an index to the database when adding a new type of query to the app", as load testing that would catch it tends not to be done on each and every release.