An Inside Look at WinXP development
MS Press | at | by Mike
By no comparable means WinXP is a great achievement for Microsoft and any software developer that has worked on it. Great work! to all that have made WinXP awesome.
"These last weeks had been pretty rough on our development staff," recalls Mayo. "People were coming in at all hours, test teams were working in shifts around the clock. We were bringing massive amounts of coffee and soda into the offices. People would sack out on sofas for a bit and then get back to work. One guy just stayed here and slept on the floor, pulling an old event banner over his head."
For each 250 software bugs that the developers could eliminate in a day, a team leader would eat a real bug -- a mealworm. If the developers could eliminate 750 bugs in three days, then all four team leaders -- Mayo and Senior Vice President Brian Valentine, Project Director Iain McDonald, and Director of Test Darren Muir -- would get "mealy mouthed." "The developers came through for us; all of us ended up eating our meal worms," says Mayo. "But only Brian chewed."