I always feel that Developers should have an attitude for development, which I have detailed in the blog post Attitudes of a Great Software Developer. But generally when it comes to issues, a lot of developers make excuses. As long they are genuine, it is not a matter of concern however if it is really an Excuse, then it is a cause for concern for the entire team. I am guilty of a few of those myself however when I saw the big picture, I rectified those and understood why people make those excuses and how we can avoid them in the future. I am detailing a few in my below post.
1. It works fine in my machine
Come on guys, this is the number one excuse that developers give. We often have a feeling that testers or the customers have a magical computer which injects bugs into our code. But that is far from true.
The only way to avoid this excuse is to be aware of the environments that are used for development, testing and production. By being aware of those, the first thing you would probably ask is, what sort of configuration/environment it is and get more details about the issue and check if it is really a valid bug. Another way to avoid this is to have a Continuous Integration environment, where with each and every code check-in, code is compiled and deployed in some test machines.
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