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Finding a few bugs is very useful if they're the kind of bugs that can cause problems in production but usually not in development or testing, like not checking
by LegibleCrimson 3y ago
Finding a few bugs is very useful if they're the kind of bugs that can cause problems in production but usually not in development or testing, like not checking an optional that is very rarely null.
It's not about workflow or finding enough bugs, but finding bugs that you might not have otherwise seen can be monumentally beneficial.
- lmm 3y ago> Finding a few bugs is very useful if they're the kind of bugs that can cause problems in production but usually not in development or testing, like not checking an optional that is very rarely null. There's a kind of excluded middle here though. Either that kind of bug hits production often enough to matter - in which case a checker that catches it sometimes isn't good enough, you need a checker that eliminates it completely. Or it doesn't hit production often enough to matter, in which case a checker is of limited use.