Year: 2009

What do software engineers encounter after another stressfull release? Well, the first thing that we encounter in our group are the bugs that we have released out in the open.  The biggest problem that we as software engineers encounter after a stressfull release is spaghetti-code, also called the big ball of mud.  The time and…

I guess that multipe teams have the “code freeze” phase, which simply means to get the software stable right before going live several days later. But what does a “code freeze” really mean? Is the code really ‘frozen’ or are you allowed to fix bugs that come out of the tests in the last remaining…