fail fast
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Computing, Engineering, Mathematics, Natural sciences, Physical sciences, Programming, Sciences To report immediately any condition likely to cause a failure, rather than attempting to continue.
- To prevent these gaps from being a problem, write your code to fail fast. Use assertions to signal the limits of your design; if someone tries to use something that isn't implemented, the assertion will cause his tests to fail.2008, James Shore, Shane Warden, The Art of Agile Development, page 324:
- In lieu of those unneeded hooks, write code to fail fast and prevent gaps from becoming a problem.2015, Rachel Alt-Simmons, Agile by Design, page 182:
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- Adding abstract to the base class causes your code to fail fast with an error that's easier to fix.2020, Andrew Stellman, Jennifer Greene, Head First C#, page 339:
- One of the most important best practices is to fail fast. Code the service in such a way that unrecoverable errors are discovered as early as possible and, if such an error is detected, have the service fail immediately.2020, Gabriel N. Schenker, Learn Docker – Fundamentals of Docker 19.x, page 254:
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Business To fail earlier rather than later, thus minimizing the fallout and allowing for timely redeployment of resources to another business case or business model.
- fail fast and pivot