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Every development team needs a formal system for tracking bugs and reminding the team what’s left to do. Maybe your system is as simple as a bunch of Post-it Notes stuck on the side of your monitor, or maybe you use a professional-strength defect tracking program. But any successful project must have some system where all the known bugs are stored in a single place. If you try to keep everything in your head, bugs will slip through the cracks. You’ll discover five bugs, and you’ll spend so much time fixing four of them that you’ll completely forget about the fifth. Then your product ships with a bug that could have been avoided.
It’s harder than you might think to squander millions of dollars, but a flawed software development process is a tool well suited to the job. —Alan Cooper, The Inmates Are Running the Asylum
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Dillon, D. (2003). Defect Tracking Programs. In: Debugging Strategies for .NET Developers. Apress, Berkeley, CA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4302-0760-3_9
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