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fail fast en · VERB
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To report immediately any condition likely to cause a failure, rather than attempting to continue.
To prevent these gaps from being a problem, write your code to fail fast. Use assertions to signal the limits of your design; if someone tries to use something that isn't implemented, the assertion will cause his tests to fail.
2008, James Shore, Shane Warden, The Art of Agile Development, page 324:Adding abstract to the base class causes your code to fail fast with an error that's easier to fix.
2020, Andrew Stellman, Jennifer Greene, Head First C#, page 339:One of the most important best practices is to fail fast. Code the service in such a way that unrecoverable errors are discovered as early as possible and, if such an error is detected, have the service fail immediately.
2020, Gabriel N. Schenker, Learn Docker – Fundamentals of Docker 19.x, page 254:In lieu of those unneeded hooks, write code to fail fast and prevent gaps from becoming a problem.
2015, Rachel Alt-Simmons, Agile by Design, page 182:
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To fail earlier rather than later, thus minimizing the fallout and allowing for timely redeployment of resources to another business case or business model.
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failsoft · fail-safe