The Elusive Bug Always Rides Your Debugging Hammer

Content 1 import os 2 def Windows Diagnostics () 3 print ('Looking for problems') 4 waitTimer (20000ms) 5 print ( Unable to fix the issue.') 6

The eternal dance between testers and developers captured in its purest form! When bugs mysteriously appear in production, testers immediately go into detective mode, crawling on the ground trying to catch these elusive creatures. Meanwhile, the default response? "I bet the developers did this." Because obviously, the code was perfect until someone breathed on it wrong. Never mind that it passed all the tests with flying colors yesterday. Production environments are just developers' favorite place to release their collection of exotic bugs into the wild. It's not a deployment, it's a safari.

Content The Giant bug I still don't want to fix Me Fixing a typo in the README

The One Ring of regex has been discovered. Looking at that pattern is like staring into the void. Senior devs with 20 years of experience still copy-paste regex from Stack Overflow because deciphering that cryptic nonsense is basically a dark art. If Mordor had a programming language, regex would be its syntax.

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Content I've interviewed a lot of people over the last year (Java), and my favorite test is to throw a Stack Trace at them and ask them to figure out what the problem is. The answer is actually quite clear, however. Half of them don't know it's called a stack trace. Some don't know what they're looking at (BYE!). Several focus on the wrong section of proprietary code. Some ask to "open a debugger". however the answer is right there in plain english if you just read the method names. Many don't realize the line numbers are RIGHT THERE, and then start focusing on the lines ending with "Compiled Code". Then there are the ones who work their way up from the bottom, starting with the application container code, and lose their minds. Some who figure out what is happening don't have a solution to prevent it from happening. No, I'm not sharing the trace; suffice to say it's been reviewed by more than 5 of my peers and they all passed. Like Reply 1h Edited I mean, it isn't hard to eliminate people with a coding question. Do you find it impossible to teach people how to read text stack traces, or is this a skill without which they will be unable to do anything of use, or do you just not want to hire anyone? 1 am serious. 1 can come up with dozens of useful programming skills I can test a candidate on that most perfectly skilled programmers would fail. Start with eliminating people who can't code at all. Then find out what they can do that could be useful. If I have 5 people who can already take a printed out stack crash dump, I probably don't need another, and if I do, a qualified candidate can be taught that skill by someone who knows it in under a week. Then again, maybe you work for Stack Trace Inc, and your entire job is looking at stack traces. If so, by bad. Like Reply 22m