Debugging Microsoft Word.
August 27th, 2004
This story about debugging Microsoft Word (which you probably saw on Slashdot) is a good read, but I must confess that it tickles my PTSD from debugging a certain Very Badly Behaved Application at my previous job. As I read through the story, one subtle bug cascading into the next, it is all too easy for me to imagine my own adventures in Heisenbugs, each lasting for days at a time, as I slowly narrowed down a bizarre interaction of code that translated into disaster for the user.
*twitch*