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Fail Fast (FF)

Variants and Alternative Names

  • Rule of Repair

Context

Principle Statement

Repair what you can — but when you must fail, fail noisily and as soon as possible.1)

Description

Rationale

Strategies

Origin

Evidence

Relations to Other Principles

Generalizations

Specializations

Contrary Principles

Complementary Principles

Principle Collections

OOD Principle Language
General Principles Modularization Principles
KISS DRY GP MP IE LC HC
Unix Philosophy (Eric S. Raymond)
Rule of…
...Modularity ...Clarity ...Composition ...Separation ...Simplicity ...Parsimony
...Transparency ...Robustness ...Representation ...Least Surprise ...Silence ...Repair
...Economy ...Generation ...Optimization ...Diversity ...Extensibility
Principles In "The Pragmatic Programmer"
Don't Repeat Yourself Make It Easy To Reuse Eliminate Effects Between Unrelated Things Program Close To The Problem Domain Keep Knowledge in Plain Text Write Code That Writes Code
Crash Early Use Assertions to Prevent the Impossible Use Exceptions for Exceptional Problems Finish What You Start Minimize Coupling Between Modules Configure, Don't Integrate
Put Abstractions In Code, Details In Metadata Always Design for Concurrency Separate Views From Models Abstractions Live Longer than Details

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Further Reading

1)
Eric S. Raymond: The Art of Unix Programming: Rule of Repair
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