Quality Assurance built an invoice matcher

“The data is mostly public anyway.”— Plant Manager

Reason:

Officially because Chen from Quality Assurance is on holiday until October. With 2 tests, all skipped.

Built by:

Katrin, a working student

Build time:

an afternoon, mostly

Built with:

Node.js with 847 packages and one route

Database:

localStorage. That is the whole backend.

Authentication:

authorization is handled in the UI

Deployment:

behind a domain registered for €4 during a workshop

Responsible:

Ravi, who thought somebody else owned it

Documentation:

a README that begins with "temporary notes"

Security situation:

production secrets are in Git history

Future disaster:

It will discover the backups have never been restored.

Age: 7.3 years · originally expected to last 3 weeks · 1 owner so far · survived 3 reorganisations · last meaningful change 823 days ago

Rated rare mostly because: 4 accidental connections, 51% chance of becoming business critical, 4 departments depend on it.