Quality Assurance built a PTO approval app

“The code is self-documenting.”— Tobias, Quality Assurance

Reason:

Because the nightly job requires somebody to click "continue". With 147 users and zero documentation.

Built by:

Tobias, a field technician

Build time:

8 evenings

Built with:

plain HTML and 1,900 lines of jQuery

Database:

a Postgres database called new

Authentication:

the password was last changed 823 days ago

Deployment:

running on Ubuntu 18.04 and nobody wants to upgrade it

Responsible:

the business

Documentation:

a file called how-it-works-v2-final-final.docx

Security situation:

production secrets are in the frontend bundle

Future disaster:

It will eventually need a migration project larger than the app itself.

Age: 2.3 years · originally expected to last 3 weeks · 5 owners so far · last meaningful change 823 days ago · original builder left 347 days ago

Rated common mostly because: €104k per year, alive 40x longer than intended, the builder has left.