Showing posts with label assumptions. Show all posts
Showing posts with label assumptions. Show all posts

Tuesday, October 23, 2018

Assumption Pitfall: "The Problem is Real"

One person holds up a hammer and says "this screwdriver keeps damaging the wood" and another says "try turning it slower".

Recently, someone told me about a bug. I spent a fair amount of time investigating the bug, including quite a while trying to get a test that would reproduce it.

In the end, it turned out malformed input was being used. There was no problem.