Comments on: Insidious Bugs or: How I Stopped Worrying and Learned to Love Exceptions http://verysimple.com/2009/04/03/insidious-bugs/ Custom Software Sat, 28 Jan 2012 15:18:03 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Four Reasons to NOT use try/catch | VerySimple http://verysimple.com/2009/04/03/insidious-bugs/#comment-4469 Four Reasons to NOT use try/catch | VerySimple Mon, 14 Nov 2011 20:39:28 +0000 http://www.verysimple.com/blog/?p=321#comment-4469 [...] Most of these errors I feel are due to developer fear and paranoia that the end user will see an error message.  Nobody wants their customer to encounter bugs and errors, but there is a difference between an app that is solid and one that simply hides problems.  It’s much harder to fix a bug that nobody knows is there.  I’ve written about this before in my article about insidious bugs. [...] [...] Most of these errors I feel are due to developer fear and paranoia that the end user will see an error message.  Nobody wants their customer to encounter bugs and errors, but there is a difference between an app that is solid and one that simply hides problems.  It’s much harder to fix a bug that nobody knows is there.  I’ve written about this before in my article about insidious bugs. [...]

]]> By: Daniel Burge http://verysimple.com/2009/04/03/insidious-bugs/#comment-634 Daniel Burge Tue, 28 Jul 2009 21:09:43 +0000 http://www.verysimple.com/blog/?p=321#comment-634 Great article. The times that I've seen these types of bugs are in areas which deal with data type conversions. For instance decimals being rounded to the wrong place. After summing up this can be a big problem that might not be noticed on an item by item basis. Daniel Burge Great article. The times that I’ve seen these types of bugs are in areas which deal with data type conversions. For instance decimals being rounded to the wrong place. After summing up this can be a big problem that might not be noticed on an item by item basis.

Daniel Burge

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