ZedZark 6 days ago

Yep, this is a variation of "check the plug"

I find myself doing this all the time now I will temporarily add a line to cause a fatal error, to check that it's the right file (and, depending on the situation, also the right line)

  • shmoogy 6 days ago

    I'm glad I'm not the only one doing this after I wasted too much time trying to figure out why my docker build was not reflecting the changes ... never again..

eddd-ddde 6 days ago

How much time I've wasted unknowingly editing generated files, out of version files, forgetting to save, ... only god knows.

netcraft 6 days ago

the biggest thing I've always told myself and anyone ive taught: make sure youre running the code you think youre running.

  • codr7 5 days ago

    Baby steps, if the foundation is shaky no amount of reasoning on top is going to help.

ajuc 6 days ago

That's why you make it break differently first. To see your changes have any effect.

  • snowfarthing 5 days ago

    When working on a test that has several asserts, I have adopted the process of adding one final assert, "assert 'TEST DEBUGGED' is False", so that even when I succeed, the test fails -- and I could review to consider if any other tests should be added or adjusted.

    Once I'm satisfied with the test, I remove the line.

n144q 6 days ago

...and you are building and running the correct clone of a repository