Re:why do description of the "glitch" (Score 1)

Your analogy is a bit flawed. Most people wouldn't say to a heart surgeon "how hard can it be to unclog an artery". However, another heart surgeon would. Since I write and fix code, I think I'm entitled. "but that nobody would tell the developers the correct date calculation to use" That is an assumption on your part. I would ASSUME that something this basic would have been defined as part of the system requirements. I would ASSUME something this basic would be testing in user acceptance testing. But, even if it wasn't - then how did the auditors know the dates were wrong? Must have been either documented or common knowledge. As for fixing it - I do a fair amount of investigating and resolving issues where a line on a report or a value on a screen is incorrect - all on systems that I came in on cold and the original developers have moved on. This happens at a lot of places all the time. It is often hard and confusing tracing peoples code, but in the vast majority of the cases it really does come down to correcting the calculateReleaseDate function in prison_system.c. The harder part is usually correcting all of bad data.