http://blogs.msdn.com/nickmalik/archive/2005/06/28/HighBusFactor.aspxA friend of mine pointed out an interesting post by Scott Hanselman that used a clever phrase: "having a High Bus Factor" which is to say: if the original developer of a bit of code is ever hit by a bus, you are toast. The example that Scott gave wasen-USCommunityServer 2.1 SP1 (Build: 61025.2)http://blogs.msdn.com/nickmalik/archive/2005/06/28/HighBusFactor.aspx#433473Tue, 28 Jun 2005 22:36:48 GMT91d46819-8472-40ad-a661-2c78acb4018c:433473David O'HaraI have to admit to having created (as well as inheriting) some pretty awful pieces of code as well. My feelings are that with unit tests, you can certainly mitigate *some* of the hassle but it should still be the devs responsibility for writing maintainable code. Like doctors, we should first and always "do no harm". :)http://blogs.msdn.com/nickmalik/archive/2005/06/28/HighBusFactor.aspx#999342Mon, 06 Nov 2006 17:11:16 GMT91d46819-8472-40ad-a661-2c78acb4018c:999342Lorenzo Barbieri @ UGIblogs!