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Silver Adept ([personal profile] silveradept) wrote in [personal profile] azurelunatic 2013-02-06 09:46 pm (UTC)

Ah, yes, you are gold. Your end-users should know to never piss you off, and your bugfixers should regularly shower you in chocolate for being able to contribute meaningful reports when things go wrong.

I would have thought the automated tests would include "Try to do something that cannot be done, though it sounds plausible" to check and make sure that it doors not, in fact, try to do something that it cannot.

The recommendation was new and quite funny, despite not having read any of the Vorkosigan novels. And far too familiar, in that I could recall one of my users fitting each of the statements.

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