There are no small changes (2011)

Being as engineers or manager, we often over look this aspect. If quality is important, nothing is a small change.

There are plenty of small changes in well-designed systems.<p>Had this system from the start had a defined limit on the length of inputs, the change would have entailed the changing of a constant, and possibly a rewrite of an error message&#x2F;instructional oneliner, nothing more.

I once updated a client&#x27;s email address on a site to be their new one.<p>It was a small change.<p>There are some small changes.

Not to mention &quot;Does my character-counter work with unicode?&quot;

First question should be: can we only receive SMS reviews if we have a 140 character limit? Is it a problem for a SMS if there is no limit?

A lot of these questions can be answered easily of you setup some sort of protocol within your application for form validation and error handling.<p>If everything is ad hoc, then every little change is going to have a thousand implicit question that every developer on the team is going to answer differently.