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Re:I was a 10x engineer and I’m sorry by wysifnwyg on Thursday July 18, 2019 @01:50PM (#20472259)
When I'm addressing bugs in the project I'm working on, especially when the bugs are described vaguely by outsiders, I start by confirming what I know to work. Take the most likely path I can conceptualize them reaching some sort of issue that's similar to their reported issue. While confirming what I know to work, if I'm not encountering anything that indicates that I'm on the right path, I switch over instead to what potential edge cases could be the issue. Focusing on the expectations, assumptions, and behavior I expect to see given what the options are provided (do they have the option to switch between two screens over and over).
Re:I was a 10x engineer and I’m sorry by Vinnl on Thursday July 18, 2019 @03:34PM (#20473190)
Yeah that's mostly what I do, and it generally works well. Sometimes there are cases like this, however, where the observed effect has hundreds of possible edge cases causing it, and I just lucked into observing the right one on my own machine.