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Within my first half year of working in a startup, I got to touch invoicing code and thought I had written tests for every occasion and had removed all bugs. A
by AnyTimeTraveler 6y ago
Within my first half year of working in a startup, I got to touch invoicing code and thought I had written tests for every occasion and had removed all bugs.
A month after the code went through reviews and more testing, and was put into production.
Another month later, more than half a million dollars is missing.
After figuring out what went wrong, the issue was quickly fixed and corrected invoices were sent out.
My point is:
While it's not like brain surgery, in that every mistake is deadly, some mistakes can have devastating consequences.
- traes 6y agoThis is one of the obvious exceptions that I mentioned. Anything to do with money counts as business critical and should be treated like brain surgery.