Another possible case of overzealous input validation

[zhuoyang125]

The app accepts only one form of phone numbers, although a user may have certain preferences for how phone numbers are displayed. This may also be a case of overzealous input validation since other forms of phone numbers are not accepted.

[soc-se-bot]

Team's Response

Given the use case of our application, it is rarely the case that our groupmates are going to give a number other than their personal phone number. Therefore, accepting two forms of phone number may only apply to other application that may need to save both personal and office numbers.

Items for the Tester to Verify

:question: Issue response

Team chose [response.NotInScope]

• [x] I disagree

Reason for disagreement: For the issue, I am referring to the format allowed for phone numbers. Users may have different preferences on how they input their phone numbers e.g 99999999 or 9999-9999. I don't think that allowing different formats will hinder the operation of the app, since phone numbers are only for display purposes. Thus I still feel it's a valid feature flaw.

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