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100% agree. Likewise, I think adopting a "how can I create a stack trace/error message" mindset is incredibly important. Can you add a breakpoint to a certain

100% agree. Likewise, I think adopting a "how can I create a stack trace/error message" mindset is incredibly important. Can you add a breakpoint to a certain piece of code? Could you add a try/catch statement somewhere to catch the error? Far too often good engineers do not have an "active" mindset in hunting for stack traces/error messages, instead, they wait for them to fall like manna from heaven.

Agathos 8y ago
Raise your hand if you've ever created an insert/update database trigger that explodes when that it sees that one bad value you've been investigating, just so you'll have a traceback that points to the offending code. (Hopefully only in your development environment.)