Even fairly basic automated test coverage would almost certainly have caught it. I feel like whether the system starts up properly and enters the main UI (which this update failed to) should be the first thing you test for.
If the reason a company writes buggy software is that they’re big, then they absolutely don’t deserve to be big.
I think their exact problem is being too large. that certainly wouldn’t have happened in the early days
Even fairly basic automated test coverage would almost certainly have caught it. I feel like whether the system starts up properly and enters the main UI (which this update failed to) should be the first thing you test for.
If the reason a company writes buggy software is that they’re big, then they absolutely don’t deserve to be big.