The Boston Diaries

The ongoing saga of a programmer who doesn't live in Boston, nor does he even like Boston, but yet named his weblog/journal “The Boston Diaries.”

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Friday, February 11, 2022

If a bug is found and no one cares, is it still a bug?

I've been enjoying reading The Codeless Code over the past month. It's been helping me to accept the process, but I'm not entirely sure what to make of “The Codeless Code: Case 219 Nothing Really Matters,” especially in the light of a recent event at work dealing with undefined behavior. To place the story in context, I'm the senior monk Wangohan, my team leader is the junior monk, yet has the attitude of master Kaimu.

The story is to inform us that since the language and and the tooling around the language didn't warn of the issues, then the junior monk was right in ignoring them, and Wangohan was wrong for chastising the junior monk. But in my case, it was undefined behavior—tools might not catch it! And I'm already weary of my team leader's dependence upon testing, using it (in my opinion) as a crutch.

I have to meditate on this.

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