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📣 ironmagma

What do you think, which is harder.. developing features or fixing bugs?


What do you think, which is harder.. developing features or fixing bugs?


  👤 PaulHoule Accepted Answer ✓
We had this conversation at work this morning because my current project is porting a feature from one system to another very similar system (ultimately forked from the same code.) The basic "implementation" is a cut-and-paste job but almost all the work is tracking down whatever problem turn up.

Even though the end result is a very showy feature visible to end users the actual work is a search-and-destroy mission for bugs.


👤 theandrewbailey
I'm sending this ticket back because requirements aren't clear/can't reproduce. \s

Serious answer: depends on the specific bugs or features in question. Some features are harder than bugs, but some bugs are harder than features.


👤 mikewarot
Those are the same thing, problem solving by extending/revising a code base.