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Discussion on: What's the longest you've ever spent debugging a single bug?

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ItsASine (Kayla) • Edited

I tend to be the sort to leave something and come back to it in a week, especially for intermittent issues that are hard to reproduce.

Though I did get a fun text the other day "why does this test not work in IE?" from my last job's devs... 1. because I stopped trying to do a hack to fix it and 2. because <linked them to the IEDriver GitHub issue where Selenium said making IE work was so low priority that they didn't care typing was broken>

Technically I probably spent 4 years with those tests working in IE barely half the time because of timing around typing. I solved it by getting a new job :P