It’s been there for 6 years and nobody has run into it. Reproducing it takes half an hour by hand, 10 minutes with an automation script. 100 steps is a lot, because to get the bug you have to do those steps in that order, do one thing different no crash. In the time it would have taken to find and solve that bug we instead found and solved probably 100 other bugs, bugs the customer was actually likely to run into, as opposed to an obscure series of actions that a user will never do.
Again there’s the difference between moving metal and not. This is communication software. Even if a customer did run into that bug (which again, 6 years and thousands of customers with 10s of thousands of users using the thick client have not) nobody is gonna die. You’re failing to grasp the difference between large customer base wide open usage software and limited user base limited input life of embedded systems. The day you make a package that integrates with every piece of non-game software MS makes AND Lotus Note, AND 4 different brands of MFP AND two of Sharepoint’s competitors in document management AND do make a new release for the thing every year AND have no bugs you have room to talk. Until then you’re just blowing smoke and telling lies.
Put your money where your mouth is Pal. I can provide multiple witnesses for whatever I've said here. (And not just here either. Anywhere.)
Go ahead, You get by with your sloppy work. I never said you were the only one. But that approach doesn't cut it with me.
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