Automated Tests

[johnnyk]

This is actually getting kind of tiring, every change you guys make comes with a billion+1 OBVIOUS bugs. There's nothing subtle here, these are clear functionality bugs, which makes it painfully obvious that once you code something in you don't take the time to test it.

Honestly, I don't know what kind of development model this is, where I work, for every patch there are 200 something automated functionality tests and manual testing as well, before we deploy it. So, in conclusion, just develop some damn tests and let them run to make sure the minimum functionality is there before you deploy an update.

[bcolargol]

Agreed. With this kind of software each release should undergo extensive regression testing. A simple syntactic test can be used to discover these type of bugs easily.

[TommyB]

Hell , no need to go that far. Having a test server and trying out the basic functionality before going live would have caught 99% of those bugs. :/