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Hmm, are you sure a team will always<br />

squash bugs like they did in the spike<br />

test? How can you have any confidence<br />

that you’ll fix all the bugs in seven<br />

When it comes to bug fixing, we really<br />

can’t be sure<br />

When it comes down to it, a spike test really only gives<br />

you a more accurate estimate than a pure guess. It’s not<br />

100% accurate, and may not even be close.<br />

But the spike test does give you quantitative data upon<br />

which you can base your estimates. You know how many<br />

bugs you fixed, and it was a random sample, so you can<br />

say with a certain degree <strong>of</strong> confidence that you should<br />

be able to fix the same number <strong>of</strong> further bugs in roughly<br />

the same amount <strong>of</strong> time.<br />

However, a spike test does not give you any qualitative<br />

data. This means that we really only know how fast<br />

you can fix the bugs that we just worked on. We don’t<br />

really know how bad things might be in stuff waiting<br />

to be fixed. There’s still the potential for a bug to be<br />

in Mercury Meals that will blow your estimate out <strong>of</strong><br />

the water, and unfortunately, that’s a fact <strong>of</strong> life when it<br />

comes to bug fixing, especially on third-party s<strong>of</strong>tware.<br />

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