Crash Dump Analysis AntiPatterns (Part 10)
Often engineers spend 10 minutes pursuing a certain investigation path and then prematurely closing it and switching to another. This is what I call Myopic Troubleshooting and Debugging.
This anti-pattern name was inspired by Daniel Dennett’s discussion of insufficiently patient scientists doing computer simulations:
“mistaking a failure of imagination for an insight into necessity” (Darwin’s Dangerous Idea, page 175).
Paraphrasing we can say that engineers think of impossibility where their imagination fails.
- Dmitry Vostokov @ DumpAnalysis.org -