Need Robust Software? Make It Fragile

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Yegor Bugayenko

“Robustness is the ability to continue operating despite abnormalities”

— Wikipedia

public int size(File file) { if (!file.exists()) { return 0; } return file.length();}

public int size(File file) { if (!file.exists()) { throw new Exception( "file doesn’t exist" ); } return file.length();}

Fail Safe vs

Fail Fast

try { // something may go wrong} catch (Exception ex) { ex.printStackTrace();}// keep going...

concealing vs

revealing

size()

size()

size()

size()

tolerance vs

arrogance

size()

“Robustness is the ability to continue operating despite abnormalities”

surviving vs

operating

What do you think?

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