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Fail Fast

by Shore, Jim; Editor Fowler, Martin (2004-09-30) permalink

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Fail Fast is geared towards quick recognition of programming errors and making bugs easier to track/find. The approach is to focus on making code easier to debug rather then focusing on the user experience during program failure (customers might be confused and annoyed by the error handling, but the quicker resolution to the issue would provide a greater overall benefit).

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Source: Thought Works - www.martinfowler.com
File Type: PDF
Owner: admin
Categories: General, Quality
Updated: May 19, 2006

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Comments admin (17 May 18:40)

The article helps refocus error handling to the quick resolution of issues rather then the ‘graceful’ handling of issues. I agree that the priority of adding error handling code should be the quicker resolution and a lower priority being the presentation to the user (even though this might be a difficult discussion with the help desk and managers especially if the system fails often)