Doesn't sound like a very friendly environment. Seems kind of insidious for someone attach the blame one of your team, rather than you, to undermine your authority. Insightful post.
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Originally posted by ARTelevision
The question is often an obvious attempt by higher-ups to find out which programmer is to "blame" for the mistake.
Often there's no way to test for things that may happen once the app hits the customer's particular environment, new data, etc.
When I say "I should have caught it". The person who is doing the questioning knows full well I am stonewalling and that I might as well be saying "I'm not about to give you leverage into my team operations. I'm taking the hit and I will deal with the error."
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