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Today at work has encapsulated the highs and lows of testing, in the same event, none the less.
The downside: I spent three hours working at isolating a bug which was causing a crash under a very odd set of circumstances.
The upside: After said three hours, it was pinned down to a set of SQL table column spaces which weren't big enough to hold the data which went in them- causing two of the 460 possible query criteria pieces to truncate in such a way as to render them functionally identical, so that any query containing the two elements crashed because the query was trying to recover the same data bit twice. Realistically, chances were that it had to be one of twenty-three newly introduced elements, but it was still a namespace collision in a weird place.
The downside: I spent three hours working at isolating a bug which was causing a crash under a very odd set of circumstances.
The upside: After said three hours, it was pinned down to a set of SQL table column spaces which weren't big enough to hold the data which went in them- causing two of the 460 possible query criteria pieces to truncate in such a way as to render them functionally identical, so that any query containing the two elements crashed because the query was trying to recover the same data bit twice. Realistically, chances were that it had to be one of twenty-three newly introduced elements, but it was still a namespace collision in a weird place.