Mathew Nolton BlogSoftware dementia unleashed...Fail Fast- April 26, 2005 I found this paper about "Failing Fast" while reading Paul Lockwood's blog. It refers to Martin Fowler's wiki about writing code to Fail Fast. This technique has been around for a while; however, I honestly have always been more of a proponent of writing defensive code. However, after writing defensive code for years and reading this paper I am starting to rethink my approach. I am not saying that I am doing away with defensive coding. I still believe...http://weblogs.asp.net/mnolton/archive/2005/04/26/404514.aspx |