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Discussion on: What's your approach to fixing a "long-term" hairy bug?

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charliedeveloper

not necessarily what exactly needs to happen to fix it, but how can the whole team be involved in fixing it so that it doesn't happen again. With everyone getting involved it:

  • makes everyone realise what level of effort it takes to fix it if they let it happen again.
  • prevents knowledge silos
  • collaborative code on complicated legacy projects usually looks less like spaghetti than if approached individually.
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Paula George

if the bug is hairy as u say i will start with roots and re-build the whole code without rewriting it just double check everything and i hope u were using any kind of version control just print everything