Is there a term for debugging where you've fixed the issue, but you don't understand the behaviour that the bug produced?
"Fixed if(logged_in) which should have been if(!logged_in). No idea why users previously got their usernames ROT13'd."
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Chekhov's repro: If a line of code is included in a bug report, it should contribute to the debugging somewhere.
Chekhov's repro: If a line of code is included in a bug report, it should contribute to the debugging somewhere.
I'm playing with DOT output for debugging syntax trees from difftastic. Here's an F# snippet, the Debug representation, and the DOT rendered as an image.
I'm pleased with the information density on the graphic, but we'll see how often I end up using it.





