Nissan app developer busted for copying code from Stack Overflow

[BaabuBangaram]

Copying and pasting code from the internet is one of the biggest open secrets in computer programming. And trust me, we all do it. That's because there are question-and-answer sites like StackOverflow.com, where any developer can post a programming-related question and get a response from a fellow developer.

Anyone who may or may not have copied his best friend's English essay in grade school knows the rule: don't copy word for word. You have to come up with the same conclusion using different words, otherwise you risk getting busted.

 

A developer working on the NissanConnect EV mobile app just got caught red-handed when a verbatim Stack Overflow answer showed up in the most recent app update.

 

View image on Twitter

 

 Follow

Scott Helme @Scott_Helme

A screenshot from the latest version of the Nissan ConnectEV app...

5:40 PM - 4 May 2016

•  
•  
•  
   604604 Retweets
•  
•  
   665665 likes

 

 

 

But the fact that a line of code copied from the internet somehow made its way through the quality assurance process (there is a QA process for Nissan apps, right?) and deployed as an update — to an app that manages a car nevertheless — doesn’t give me a ton of confidence to Nissan or other connected cars in general.

So the lesson here? Never, ever copy and paste code from the internet you don't understand. I repeat: never copy and paste code from the internet you don't understand.

[Maryadaramanna]

[Maryadaramanna]

[Pichkaari]

1 hour ago, Maryadaramanna said:

Total story in 2 line please.. 

[tom bhayya]

[Balibabu]

[TOM_BHAYYA]

Copy kottadam Oka art dhaanike .. Fire chesthaaara?

[saradagakasepu]

2 minutes ago, TOM_BHAYYA said:

Copy kottadam Oka art dhaanike .. Fire chesthaaara?

artistic ga ledani fire chesaru