The Daily WTF

GRH inherited an application written by someone who is no longer employed with the company, as part of a project managed by someone who is no longer at the company, requested by an executive who is also no longer at the company. There are no documented requirements, very few tests, and a lot of “don’t touch this, it works”.

Well, it worked until it didn’t. On a Friday before a long weekend, the application broke. As you might expect, it has a relatively small user pool, but is absolutely vital to the company’s operations- if it fails, widgets don’t get shipped and invoices don’t get paid. So GRH got to spend that long weekend fixing the application.

In this case, the application is a Microsoft ClickOnce deployment (essentially “install without showing the user an installer”) distributed through a shared network drive.

The specific section that broke was some code responsible

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