Small Bugs with Big Implications

Author: artima.com | Published: 11th Aug 2007 | Visited: 156 times | Add Comment
Filed in: Core Java

Small bugs can sometimes lead to significant failures, especially when those bugs appear in production code. In this interview with Artima, Mark Thomas, Director of Java Technologies at IBM, talks about the potentially big implications of defects discovered only in a production environment, and what developers can do to mitigate such problems.

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