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Re:The $11B Webb telescope aims to probe the early universe by peterburkimsher on Wednesday December 08, 2021 @03:16PM (#29489873)
I agree, it's a recursive search! Translated into software testing:

"level of detail codified in functional, performance and interface requirements"

functions, usage frequency, APIs.

"usually because your interface requirements are not specified well enough"

It's probably a bug in the API.

https://martinfowler.com/bliki/TwoHardThings.html

"There are only two hard things in Computer Science: cache invalidation, naming things, and off-by-one errors"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ctags

Suggestion: use ctags to list all functions, variable names in your code. Look for ambiguity (e.g. variable name "i"). Look at neighbouring code. Zoom in and out. A small bug in the most-used code is actually more serious than a big bug in code that rarely gets used.

"How long can you work on making a routine task before you're spending more time than you save?"

https://xkcd.com/1205/

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