Royal Pain

[Fraser Campbell]

On Monday 14 June 2004 13:58, Robert Brockway wrote:

> On Mon, 14 Jun 2004, Jim Rootham wrote:
> > My interpretation of the tea leaves is that it was an application
> > upgrade that failed.  COBOL programme at a guess.  There was an
>
> An article in one of the local papers confirmed it was a code commit to a
> production system that broke stuff.  What happened to the 3 stage testing
> that finance is famous for?

One article that I read (probably in the Star) suggested that it was the fault 
of one single programmer.  I guess the coder, is the tester, is the approver, 
is the deployer ;-)

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