9 Living with bugs
This chapter covers
- Error handling best practices
- Living with bugs
- Intentional error handling
- Avoiding debugging
- Advanced rubber-duck debugging
The most profound work of literature on bugs is Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka. It tells the story of Gregor Samsa, a software developer, who wakes up one day to find out that he is actually the only bug. Well, he isn’t actually a software developer in the story because the entire practice of programming in 1915 only consisted of a couple of pages of code Ada Lovelace wrote 70 years before Kafka wrote his book. But Gregor Samsa’s profession was the next best thing to a software developer: he was a traveling salesperson.
Bugs are basic units of metrics for determining software quality. ...
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