Working As Designed

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When a Developer does not want to fix a Bug in a program, this is the first explanation of the reason the software system reacted the way it did. Well, actually the first explanation is that the person using the software made a mistake. If they come back, and many never do, then it is "WAD" and they go away again. Only now, if they come back will the developer have to actually do anything like look at the design specification to determine if there is a problem or not. This is usually a rapid process because most software is never built to an actual document that specifies how anything is supposed to work. With this new information the pest can be sent away again.

Now, usually the pest comes back with management support and since no one understands what developers do anyway, they can claim it has been fixed and will be in the next release. All resources exhausted, the developer now has to stop playing solitaire long enough to remove the "feature" with all appropriate care so that the actual count of defects in the system does not decrease by inserting at least one new "feature".

All kidding aside. This means that a piece of software is working as expected by the developer, but not in the manner expected by the user.