Bug blindness

Bug blindness

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Bug blindness

jrychter
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As a long-time customer, I thought I would post this, even though it will likely be considered off-topic and removed. Yet, I think it should be highly recommended reading for teams working on Fusion:

 

"Bug blindness": https://danluu.com/bug-blind/https://danluu.com/bug-blind/

 

I really wish someone at Autodesk can read this and popularize it. The story about Blackboard isn't much unlike what I hear and feel about Fusion.

 

Just today I opened Fusion and tried to delete a sketch constraint. As I was staring at the somewhat-bluish vs somewhat-less-bluish constraints and trying to figure out which of the three "incident" constraints applies to what, I thought for what must have been a thousandth time: "how could anyone at Autodesk possibly live with this, consider it OK, ship it, and then *keep doing this* for many years?"

 

I think that article has a pretty good explanation.

 

For illustration purposes, some of what I'm staring at sometimes, these are from 2022. Things haven't improved much since then. Look at the first picture: if I delete the "highlighted" incident constraint, what will be affected? I don't even know what to say about the second picture.

If I delete the highlighted incident constraint, what will be affected?If I delete the highlighted incident constraint, what will be affected?

 

What is even going on here?What is even going on here?

 

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lance.carocci
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Thanks for sharing!

 

I buy the “bug blindness” idea, but the post underplays prioritization. Often, people see the problem clearly enough; they’ve simply decided that other work matters more for one reason or another.


Lance Carocci
Fusion QA for UI Framework/Cloud Workflows, and fervent cat enthusiast