Smh nissan.

[UNKNOWN_370]

Nissan developers copied code from the internet, pasted it into a remote-access app

[ZHighlander]

Yeesh, this does not install much confidence in their software department...

This suggests that either the developer didn't fully test the piece he was working on, or he does not qualify to be a developer if he didn't know what that line meant...

[birdman71]

Just a bonehead and sloppy move on the entire computer science and programming department of Nissan.

With coding in general, debugging does not take place only on your own work. You debug others segments down to every byte.

How this got past many people is dumbfounding.

[cofo11]

Originally Posted by ZHighlander

Yeesh, this does not install much confidence in their software department...

This suggests that either the developer didn't fully test the piece he was working on, or he does not qualify to be a developer if he didn't know what that line meant...

Originally Posted by birdman71

Just a bonehead and sloppy move on the entire computer science and programming department of Nissan.

With coding in general, debugging does not take place only on your own work. You debug others segments down to every byte.

How this got past many people is dumbfounding.

It's not that he didn't test or debug, the aforementioned defect is a cosmetic defect, doesn't effect usability of the app. It may have even been discovered and have been slated to be fixed in an upcoming release.

Since Japanese auto manufacturers are pioneers in certain AGILE methodologies I would assume their IT departments operate in this manner as well. That said, if they are exceptionally mature their QA wouldn't have caught it, because their is no time for QA as it has existed in the past. Instead it operates on small incremental releases, releases too fast for QA to test beforehand. Instead they test the release in production, as long as automation passes, this almost certainly would have passed automation and log defects to go on the backlog.