“QA Will Find Them” — Or The Story Of Cowboy Coders And Non-Collaboration

I was on a project with a very tough defect assigned to me.  The main class consisted of 1600 lines with zeee-ro unit tests, and a McAbe index of 67.  I had found numerical/scale/precision errors in some of the underlying classes and knew the source data had fields that were not necessarily being used for what the columns were named to be.  The effort to fix would involve collaboration with the business and some of the coders who authored this beauty — as I could see from their names in the repository.The content you are trying to access is only available to members. Sorry.

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