The Dramatic Nature Of The Easiest Bugs To Solve

Brent Simmons:

Given a programmer who’s good at their job — who knows the language, frameworks, and runtime well — the dramatic nature of a bug is in inverse proportion to the difficulty of the fix as long as the bug is actually in that programmer’s code.

In my experience, drama doesn’t make bugs either easier or harder to solve. Brent identifies many of the sources of difficult bugs. Some others – often restatements of Brent’s principles: