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As programmers, we inherently despise the buy Zovirax 800 mg bug finding and bug fixing process of a project.  It has buy Zovirax 800 mg been engrained in us since we wrote our first Hello World application that buy Zovirax 800 mg displayed an output of ‘Hello Wod’.  It can buy Zovirax 800 mg sap our confidence in a hurry and make the most professional programmer feel like a buy Zovirax 800 mg novice.

“Oh wow…how did I miss that?”

“Did I not think this solution through?”

When users and buy Zovirax 800 mg clients find and report bugs, feelings of despair can easily turn into anger.

“You don’t know how to use it!”

“Are you sure that’s what you saw?”

Any professional programmer knows that buy Zovirax 800 mg you will inevitably spend more time fixing the bugs in an buy Zovirax 800 mg application than he or she ever thought when initially estimating and buy Zovirax 800 mg designing it.  Embracing this buy Zovirax 800 mg eventuality is the only sane way to approach this part of the buy Zovirax 800 mg project, and since the programmer is going to have to do it buy Zovirax 800 mg anyway, they may as well find the good in it.

I, for one, LOVE bugs.  I think they’re fantastic! Large bugs, small bugs, non-bugs, feature requests…I love them all, and more importantly, I want my users/clients to report them all.  The idea is simple… a bug I don’t know about can’t be fixed.  I instruct our clients to buy Zovirax 800 mg report all bugs, regardless of the severity, regardless of the development cycle, regardless of the buy Zovirax 800 mg feature, and regardless of whether or not he or she thinks I know about the buy Zovirax 800 mg issue already.  This is buy Zovirax 800 mg key to making sure that all bugs are cataloged and buy Zovirax 800 mg tracked, even the ones we do not intend to fix.  It is buy Zovirax 800 mg ALWAYS better to release an application with a known bug than buy Zovirax 800 mg an unknown bug.

Here are buy Zovirax 800 mg some things to consider when negative thoughts begin to creep in about bugs:

Users are not bad people

You already know how to use your application.  The only way to buy Zovirax 800 mg truly test your application is to put it in the hands of someone that buy Zovirax 800 mg IS a user and let them figure it out. They will produce bugs you buy Zovirax 800 mg have never considered or were masked because you know exactly where buy Zovirax 800 mg to click, what to type, and how to navigate.

Users are not out to get you

A user’s intention is buy Zovirax 800 mg not to make your life more difficult, but rather to help you buy Zovirax 800 mg produce the most professional application possible.  When they report an buy Zovirax 800 mg bug, it is not a personal attack against you or your buy Zovirax 800 mg abilities.

You can decide what to fix

Remember, the buy Zovirax 800 mg user is just telling you what THEY think is wrong, not what buy Zovirax 800 mg is actually wrong.  You can buy Zovirax 800 mg decide if something is actually a bug, or a feature request, or buy Zovirax 800 mg nothing at all. You are the expert and, as long as you buy Zovirax 800 mg are honest, your clients will respect your professional opinion regarding any issue.

You don’t have to fix it now

Lastly, keep in mind that buy Zovirax 800 mg a bug report from a user is not a mandate to buy Zovirax 800 mg fix something immediately.  You can buy Zovirax 800 mg fix it when the time is right and when it buy Zovirax 800 mg makes the most sense.  Often, there is buy Zovirax 800 mg no need to stop what you are doing to fix a buy Zovirax 800 mg small, edge-case bug immediately.  Rather, fix it buy Zovirax 800 mg when during the bug fixing phase, or some later development phase.

The one thing to take away is…you can’t fix bugs that are never reported.  Embrace them!



2 Responses to “Users Are Not Bad People”

  1. [...] Check out Keenan’s brilliant blog post on bugs “Users Are Not Bad People“. [...]

  2. Lola LB says:

    How do you actually get users to use the bug tracker system? I’ve been buy Zovirax 800 mg encouraging our users to log into our bug tracker, but some of them seem to buy Zovirax 800 mg be intimidated by it.

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