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Broken As Designed

(BAD) A humourous problem description that is a play on "working as designed", from IBM. A system that is BAD fails because of bad design and misfeatures rather than because of bugs.

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Last updated: 2020-05-17

Nearby terms:

broken ♦ broken arrow ♦ Broken As Designed ♦ broker ♦ broket ♦ brontobyte

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