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Development Horror Stories JavaOne 2014 BOF 4223 Roberto Cortez @radcortez Simon Maple @sjmaple
• We all enjoy to hear a good success story!! • But Software is also made up of disasters and failures! • We can learn...
• We are kick starting this with our own stories!! • But, we want YOU to step in and share your story with us! • We ha...
• In the end we kindly ask the audience to vote for the best story! • We have a SURPRISE GIFT for the Winner!
Story Time!
It might just be a tyop
Or Valuable Data Loss!
Sometimes you take risks!
Never happened in QA before!
Integr ation is a cha llenge!
You are trying to ! ! ! fix a problem
But… ! ! ! create another one!
And another one…
Hope this works!
Share your story!
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Development Horror Stories

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We all enjoy to hear a good success story, but in the software development industry the life of a developer is also made up of disasters, disappointments and frustrations. Have you ever deleted all the data in production? Or maybe you just run out of disk space and your software failed miserably! How about crashing your server with a bug that you introduced in the latest release? We can learn with each others with the mistakes we made. Come to this BOF and share with us your most horrific development story and what did you do to fix it.

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Development Horror Stories

  1. 1. Development Horror Stories JavaOne 2014 BOF 4223 Roberto Cortez @radcortez Simon Maple @sjmaple
  2. 2. • We all enjoy to hear a good success story!! • But Software is also made up of disasters and failures! • We can learn more with each others mistakes!
  3. 3. • We are kick starting this with our own stories!! • But, we want YOU to step in and share your story with us! • We have a surprise if you do!
  4. 4. • In the end we kindly ask the audience to vote for the best story! • We have a SURPRISE GIFT for the Winner!
  5. 5. Story Time!
  6. 6. It might just be a tyop
  7. 7. Or Valuable Data Loss!
  8. 8. Sometimes you take risks!
  9. 9. Never happened in QA before!
  10. 10. Integr ation is a cha llenge!
  11. 11. You are trying to ! ! ! fix a problem
  12. 12. But… ! ! ! create another one!
  13. 13. And another one…
  14. 14. Hope this works!
  15. 15. Share your story!

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