Re:Fred Wilson's 10 Golden Principles for Successful Web Apps
by msbarnett on Thursday October 07, 2010 @09:00PM
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I agree with all of the above.
And also, for the love of all that is holy, when you offer a sandbox and test data, give me a way to deliberately trigger error responses.
It's all well and good to give me an is_test parameter on your payment API, but if using it causes you to blindly approve all payments, I can't test all of the code paths dealing with all of the possible failure modes(true story).
And also, for the love of all that is holy, when you offer a sandbox and test data, give me a way to deliberately trigger error responses.
It's all well and good to give me an is_test parameter on your payment API, but if using it causes you to blindly approve all payments, I can't test all of the code paths dealing with all of the possible failure modes(true story).