Re:On the Timing of iOS’s SSL Vulnerability and Apple’s ‘Add...
by yeukhon on Saturday February 22, 2014 @09:37PM
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Okay. Good point but I hope if people take the job seriously they will have to be very careful. Though that's ideal..
How about this:
owner/peer of the module has to sign off, and randomly select two more. One must be QA and one is another programmer who works on the module. We can also pick a "junior" level, but then that's probably not going to work since Apple employes programmers who have some years of experience already. Or we can pick someone who isn't directly working on that module, but have some qualification to do review. Mostly just asking "why are you having two goto, why return -100 here)
But I see counterargument: they will just listen to the author if he's senior or the owner who is also a senior. Their words carry weight.
Re:On the Timing of iOS’s SSL Vulnerability and Apple’s ‘Add...
by eliasmacpherson on Saturday February 22, 2014 @09:58PM
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That's assuming they are full time at inspection, another scenario is where one person does it in addition to their current responsibilities.
Therefore the overall quantity of what's produced is reduced but the inspection levels are higher.
You take the experienced people off the shop floor, and call them inspectors. So now the quality of product coming off the shop floor is worse.
Ann is the first inspector in the chain. When she's busy (and remember, she will be because quality has dropped) she might be tempted to let a few things go because Bob, the second inspector in the chain, is bound to catch them. That's what he's there for.
Bob is the second inspector in the chain. Sometimes Ann really churns the product through. Luckily during those busy times he knows she's already inspected the stuff, so he only needs to give a 10% inspection.
So you have worse product with more errors and leaky inspection.
Ideally you'd have a system with skilled workers and self inspection. That's okay for aerospace (which pays well) but not so great for lower cost product.
Not quite sure how this transfers to coding.