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It's bug bash day!

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Today our team is holding a bug bash on our current development bits. What's a bug bash? It's where all the developers, testers, program managers, usability researchers, designers, documentation folks, and even sometimes marketing people, put aside their regular day-to-day duties and pound on the product to get as many eyes on the product as possible. Today's bug bash runs from 3-8pm, and as usual we'll have pizza and other fun food. Sometimes there's prizes for most bugs kept, most heinous bug, etc.

You know the bug bash is coming soon because everyone is acting shifty. People are commenting on great bugs they find, but not sharing details until the bash starts. This is “bug hoarding” and quite often happens in the hours leading up to the bash. Why log a bug at 2pm when you can get fame and sometimes fortune for logging it at 3? :)

And no, I haven't hoarded any bugs. Well, maybe 5...

[Author: Neil Enns]

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  • Anonymous
    April 28, 2004
    Neil have you been hording that S/SMTP bug? <g>

  • Anonymous
    April 28, 2004
    Hahahahahahaha! That's a good one, Barry :)

  • Anonymous
    April 28, 2004
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  • Anonymous
    April 28, 2004
    That sounds like a lot of fun! Thanks for sharing! :)

  • Anonymous
    April 28, 2004
    I must admit Neil has been acting shifty all day. As it turns out, Neil whomped everyone right of the gate and still is holding the lead. As a tester, I can not let a PM file more bugs, so I am coming after you Neil! Now who can I send to your office to keep you busy?

  • Anonymous
    April 29, 2004
    Where should we send (email/post) bugs that we (mobile users) find?

  • Anonymous
    May 02, 2004
    See the latest post from Samim as to filing bugs. In short, you can blog it, or use the "Contact" link in the left pane if you don't want to blog it. Thanks for the question JAMU.

  • Anonymous
    April 04, 2007
    PingBack from http://www.hatchiko.com/2007/04/04/is-bug-bash-a-game-or-something-else-entirely/

  • Anonymous
    December 20, 2007
    I read Joel Spolsky's blog from time to time. I am a little embarrassed to admit that I took the following