Have you become an alcoholic due to a bad bug?

3a.m in the morning, six hours since I set sail to resolve a nasty hidden bug in my current application. Oh lord why could I not spot this earlier!!! Now i'm going to get tipsy to dull the frustration. Feel free to post some horrible bug stories, I look forward to reading them tomorrow.
Dukes if I truly feel sorry for you from the bottom of my heart.
Mel

Did you people ever work on a conponent that has dependencies on other components? That's my regular joy of work and I finally succeeded in making the head of development understand that it's also a political issue. Our stuff depends on the business applications providing us with data when we call them for input.
And of course, if those calls fail and end up in an exception, it's our app that brings up the error message. So we're well-known for having an app that never works. One day when I was working foir another customer it went as far as this:
- we drew a baseline on our stuff
- they took our baseline to work with.
- they did development work on their data providers
- they tested the whole thing and it worked
- they did more development
- tests failed
Reaction? They called me saying "your stuff failed again". Sure. They were the ones to make changes, but it obviously didn't matter. Anyway, having seen a lot of voodoo by then I tried to take a look. But couldn't get at the logs. So I asked them "do you have any server logs of the test?" To which in reply they gave me logs from two days later. :p But somewhere in all that stuff I found an entry by Websfear going like "data provider: transaction open and idle for more than 600 seconds - transaction rolled back".
If they had taken even one look at their own server logs after they ran their tests after they modified their code, they would have seen the problem right away. But I guess it's too much to ask... instead, I had to spend two days trying to analyze what might have been wrong with my stuff.

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