Re: Electronic Pricetag Alteration

[scottstef]

I blame the programmers for this, but I also blame the sysadmins for this mistake. Before we let any of our developers put anything on our boxes, we have code walks to examine and try to break the script. I personally believe I have worked with some future Darwin Award winners in qa departments I have worked with, but they have made sure our code worked. (They also managed to break code in ways I still can't fathom) It appears to me that the sysadmins are at fault for letting that kind of code to sit on their servers.

just my $.02

[amelinda]

QA isn't sysadmins. Sysadmins aren't QA. Sysadmins aren't all programmers. Sysadmins have other stuff to be doing. Back off on the blame parade.

(Not to mention, we're probably talking Windows here for a significant portion of this stupidity, and Windows admins are even less likely to be programmers, in my small experience. Not to mention, we're probably also talking about groups which don't have the time/resources to do serious QA. Not to mention, even if the sysadmin can program (most likely perl), the programmers might not write in the same language (here, they do tcl).)