I often come across heated blog posts where the author uses the argument: “exceptions vs explicit error checking” to advocate his/her preferred language over some ...

One of the little-discussed realities of software development is that many packages ship without having been fully tested. Despite the new emphasis on continuous regression testing and the ...

There are extreme errors that make it impossible for an application to continue in any meaningful way. For example failure to load a crucial library. Then there are expected errors which the ...