Release and management thereafter of software products has always been difficult. As size and complexity of the products grow this becomes even more complex. But then there are more reasons for being careful too. The latest problem report comes from one of today's hot products the VMware. The CEO had to publicly apologize on the company website for an oversight that caused quite a few users a lot of stress.
Apparently developers had left some so called "time bombs" in the code, usually done to set a time limit on beta testing for example. These would be/should be cleaned up prior to release but obviously some did not get cleaned up even legitimate users could not install their systems that were paid for and all that.
Also goes to indicate how people in the testing and QA as well as the developers them selves need to be careful about such issues besides the regular bug management issues!
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