The Enigma of Time Spent on Error Handling in Software Development
2025-09-19
A software engineer struggles to find research quantifying the time developers spend on error detection and handling code. While it's widely believed this constitutes a significant portion, perhaps exceeding two-thirds of production code, reliable figures are lacking. This contrasts with the precise quantification of various metrics in current AI research, highlighting a gap in understanding fundamental aspects of software engineering.
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