“It Should Just Work” is a wonderful computing cliche that I can no longer say with a straight face.
However, after making a check-in this morning, I couldn’t think of a more appropriate phrase to reassure a co-worker that I had fixed the problem. “It will be alright now,” would have been too strong a statement. “I hope it works,” would have been accurate, but did not express my level of confidence correctly.
Can you explain—in plain and simple English—the phrase “should just work”? Try to do it in one sentence or less, and without using the words “should,” “just,” or “work”?
Comments
How about "The new acceptance test and unit tests we wrote to demonstrate your bug now pass!"
:-)
Adrian
hehe... if only. The problem in this case was that I forgot to checkin a configuration file. A classic case of "Works On My Machine" - http://fishbowl.pastiche.org/archives/001334.html