A Wombat's Journey To Market

The increasingly entertaining Next Generation has the story of the fictional game "Chortle Wombat's" journey from design to market. From the article: "Our internal testers have been working with the wombat for months. The game is content complete, stable, and bugs counts are dropping daily at a satisfactory rate. So we submit a build to Sony and Microsoft for presubmission and continue beavering (wombating?) away. This presubmission means Sony and Microsoft's test departments can get their hands on the current build and get some early visibility on what might need to be fixed when they receive a release candidate."

Comments

Summary

[Otter]

To save everyone the trouble of reading:

In the late stages of development, testers look for bugs and the developers try to fix them. When they're done, they make CDs, package them and send them to retailers. On trucks.

Re:Summary

[kaellinn18]

developers try to fix them

You misspelled ignore. At least that's how it feels like sometimes.