Re: A thin line
"A more professional approach is that the design documents define the functionality and a deviation of the code, from the documentation, is a bug"
Sigh ... Somewhere, perhaps, there is an unparallel universe, where software is carefully designed before it is coded, and programmers translate carefully written specifications from people-speak to machine-speak. And I'm sure if it exists, it runs a lot better than this universe.
But in this universe, specifications -- other than interface specs sometimes -- are uncommon and when they exist at all are more often than not, useless or worse.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
