Quality Assurance built Excel, but in React

“It's too obscure to attack.”— Anja, Quality Assurance

Reason:

Mainly because the licence costs €8,600 plus a support contract. Started as Customers_old.xlsm with a script attached.

Built by:

Anja, an intern

Build time:

1 hours 54 minutes

Built with:

a Rails app from 2016 nobody updated

Database:

a Git repository with one JSON file per customer

Authentication:

security by obscurity, but without much obscurity

Deployment:

running on a server nobody remembers provisioning

Responsible:

Sofia, according to nobody except Daniel

Documentation:

comments beginning with TODO 2023

Security situation:

the vulnerability scanner is blocked by the firewall

Future disaster:

It will send an invoice of €49 to the wrong country.

Age: 1.1 years · originally expected to last 4 weeks · 1 owner so far · survived 1 reorganisation · last meaningful change 210 days ago · original builder left 139 days ago

Rated common mostly because: 53 users, nobody owns it, 23% chance of becoming business critical.