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You've only added two lines – why did that take two days?

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Re: You've only added two lines – why did that take two days?

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An alternative take to this article would be that this person wasted two days because he was reluctant to ask more questions from the person who filed the bug report. How often do you actually receive quality bug reports at work? My experience is that external or internal users almost never provide sufficient information and you as a coder are always expected to drill down on what they reported with a barrage of ques…

> How often do you actually receive quality bug reports at work? Very, very often. I work as a QA engineer whose main responsibilities is to go through the bugfixing queue and add needed info where necessary. And I have to spend a lot of time every day doing this. Sometimes it gets so bad I have to assign the ticket back to the reporter to add more info, because even I don't know where to look without it. Interesting…

I think you mean not very often here? Otherwise the rest of your comment makes no sense.
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