Question

Becky has been assigned to help with a major change to her company’s accounts database. During the time of the change, Becky notices that her task will need to be modified to complete the change. Instead of telling her supervisor, she determines that the minor detail must have been overlooked and fixes what she believes is the problem. The minor detail that Becky did not tell her supervisor causes the change to fail. What is Becky’s mistake called?

Answer 1

out of scope modification

Step-by-step explanation:

Based on the scenario being described within the question it can be said that this mistake is known as an out of scope modification. This term refers to a change that is done to fix the immediate and visible problem but at the same time causes other problems to arise that were otherwise not visible (bigger picture problems). Such as in this case since Becky made the changes to fix the errors that she found but did not realize that these "errors" were connected to various other parts of the data, which caused bigger errors to occur.