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Is it reasonable to insist on reproducing every defect before diagnosing and fixing it?
I work for a software product company. We have large enterprise customers who implement our product and we provide support to them, e.g. if there is a defect, we provide patches etc. Fairly typical ...
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Keeping tech support on the latest software version
I'm the only software developer maintaining a subset of products at a small company. The main product I'm concerned with here is a web app which is installed on various clients' machines, with a ...
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Is it the job of a developer to suggest IT requirements?
I am the only developer working on a web application which is nearing to its end. Now we are looking into making it Live in maybe a couple of months time.
This is a web application for a non IT ...
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How to communicate within a company what is being Continually Deployed
I work for a small development company, 20 people total in the entire company, 3 in actual development, and we've adopted CD for our commits to trunk, and it works great, from a code management and ...
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Best Practices when extending a project
I have to extend a web application for a customer, there is no documentation of the current app, no analysis and even worse, there is no technical support or management. The client gives me a list of ...
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Password hashing and support to your user
We've recently moved to a better password storage strategy, with it came all the good stuff:
Passwords are stored after going through bCrypt
User is sent an activation link on account creation to ...
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Raise a ticket to issue tracking from external web application
I don't know if it's the right place to post this question but, to improve my productivity I need to install an open source issue-tracking system to keep tracks of all bugs and information about the ...
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Managing cross-thread communication on issue/bug reports
On my current project we have two or three engineers who are tagged as Tier 2 or Tier 3 support. We often work directly with customers to gather detailed information about bug and issue reports.
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What is the standard /an acceptable period of time to support a particular version of software?
Let's say version 2.4.x of Software Package X was released 2 years ago, and was sold up until about 6 months ago. Version 3.1.0 is now out (which fixes a lot of the issues with version 2.4.x), and is ...
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Is it a bad practice to stop providing support for outdated software if updates are free and easy?
Providing support for outdated software is both unexciting and expensive. If people are still using the version which was sold ten years ago, it means that they will find bugs which do not exist in ...
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With a small development team, how do you organize second-level support?
Say, you have a team of 5 developers and your inhouse customers demand a reasonable support availability of say 5 days a week, 9am-6pm.
I can imagine the following scenarios:
the customers approach ...
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Where to find Hg/Git technical support? [closed]
I would like to out who provides technical support (commercial) for two major DVCS's of today: Git and Mercurial.
This is for a place where they've been using Subversion for some time and now they're ...
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Should software engineers also act as tech support?
Should a software engineer also act as technical support? That is, should a company allow their engineers to wear both the software engineer and technical support hats. It seems that it would remove ...
