Comment Comment by twoodfin It’s been known for more than 35 years that most bugs found in production are “Heisenbugs”:https://www.cs.columbia.edu/~junfeng/08fa-e6998/sched/readin...Gray’s paper provides a logical reason why: If a bug can be reproduced reliably it’s much more likely to be found during testing and fixed, so appearing seemingly at random is a kind of Darwinian survival adaptation. parent twoodfin 4 years ago
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Gray’s paper provides a logical reason why: If a bug can be reproduced reliably it’s much more likely to be found during testing and fixed, so appearing seemingly at random is a kind of Darwinian survival adaptation.