Java With Jiva

How not to fix a bug several times
I've always tried to fix bugs in such a way that I don't have to revisit that particular bug ever again. Instead of just fixing what's wrong, I try to look at what else can go wrong and make sure that those issues are also covered as well. Well sometimes I screw up, and badly at that. Last couple of weeks I've been working on several bug fixes that just had to make it for Java5 update 6, and there wasn't alot of time left. So rather than being thorough I was going for speed and attempting to fix my back log of bugs as rapidly as possible. Well I made a few mistakes which caused other issues. Now this is all factored into the release schedule, and I still have time to make changes into a respin of update 6, but it just doesn't look all the good in front of my peers and manager. Let that be a warning to all you developers, speed is not enough, you have to be thorough as well.