Comments on: Just one of those things http://blog.gdinwiddie.com/2007/03/19/just-one-of-those-things/ Effective software development Thu, 20 Nov 2008 23:01:21 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0.6 by: gdinwiddie http://blog.gdinwiddie.com/2007/03/19/just-one-of-those-things/#comment-1316 Fri, 23 Mar 2007 13:15:35 +0000 http://blog.gdinwiddie.com/2007/03/19/just-one-of-those-things/#comment-1316 Oops, good catch! Typo fixed. Yeah, it seems that the harder it is to reproduce a problem, the harder it bites you later. Oops, good catch! Typo fixed.

Yeah, it seems that the harder it is to reproduce a problem, the harder it bites you later.

]]> by: Merlyn Albery-Speyer http://blog.gdinwiddie.com/2007/03/19/just-one-of-those-things/#comment-1298 Fri, 23 Mar 2007 05:32:37 +0000 http://blog.gdinwiddie.com/2007/03/19/just-one-of-those-things/#comment-1298 (Surely: "Computers areN'T truly random.") I saw this today helping test an ex-colleague's project. There was some bizarre new-user-to-the-site behaviour - thankfully I could reproduce it by switching browser profiles ... but you hit the nail on the head here: "don't ignore the 'intermittent failures' or they'll come back to bite you later". (Surely: “Computers areN’T truly random.”)

I saw this today helping test an ex-colleague’s project. There was some bizarre new-user-to-the-site behaviour - thankfully I could reproduce it by switching browser profiles … but you hit the nail on the head here: “don’t ignore the ‘intermittent failures’ or they’ll come back to bite you later”.

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