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What would be strategy to fix bugs in an unknown piece of code?

  
Total Answers and Comments: 9 Last Update: July 12, 2008   
  
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Submitted by: StevenPace
 
I am a tester, not a developer.    It would be foolish to give me source code, but if you want my advice, don't.....  If you don't know the code,  the quality of the finished product will probably be best served by leaving the bugs in the code.  The odds are better than even that you will cause more bugs when you try to fix the code that you don't fully understand, especially if the documentation is poor.  If the bug is something that has to be fixed, consider rewriting the code completely.

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July 06, 2005 04:36:26   #1  
Binny Jose        
RE: What would be strategy to fix bugs in an unknown piece of code?
Do not go for a dump coding to an unknown code. First do R&D in that code and test what it actually does. Debug the code and find the exact position of bug reported.Now correct it according to the requiremnent specified in SRS.
 
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July 25, 2005 17:28:38   #2  
Lakshmi        
RE: What would be strategy to fix bugs in an unknown piece of code?
What is R&D??
 
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July 28, 2005 05:20:57   #3  
pathi        
RE: What would be strategy to fix bugs in an unknown piece of code?
what is R&D Mr Binny Jose?
 
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August 03, 2005 01:10:27   #4  
mushi        
RE: What would be strategy to fix bugs in an unknown piece of code?
R&D is indian slang , read & understand
 
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August 03, 2005 02:25:54   #5  
suresh        
RE: What would be strategy to fix bugs in an unknown piece of code?
R&D works means  
Basically we can say it is a verification process. 
Before you implementing some logic into your function you have to review those to find is their any errors which can be cleared by goingthrough that piece of logic we are going to implement and if u found any thing to be changed you can change easly.  

 
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June 06, 2007 22:48:28   #6  
saransh        
r&d means

R & D means not just to read and understand but it means first watch and understand then search possiblities to do some thing new in it


 
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June 26, 2007 06:11:58   #7  
kshankarmoorthy Member Since: June 2007   Contribution: 1    
RE: What would be strategy to fix bugs in an unknown p...
R & D Means Research and Development
 
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September 27, 2007 13:20:47   #8  
sumedha sharma        
RE: What would be strategy to fix bugs in an unknown p...
r&d  stands for research and development
 
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July 12, 2008 01:20:28   #9  
StevenPace Member Since: July 2008   Contribution: 30    
RE: What would be strategy to fix bugs in an unknown piece of code?
I am a tester, not a developer.    It would be foolish to give me source code, but if you want my advice, don't.....  If you don't know the code,  the quality of the finished product will probably be best served by leaving the bugs in the code.  The odds are better than even that you will cause more bugs when you try to fix the code that you don't fully understand, especially if the documentation is poor.  If the bug is something that has to be fixed, consider rewriting the code completely.
 
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