I can appreciate
both your points. A fair compormise would be to intoruce a
reasonable defualt time out for queries that throws a
runtime exception which would be handled in a similar manner
as an NPE (i.e. not java.concurrent.TimeoutException).
Though, there still the thorny question of what is a
reasonable timeout period.
Cheers,
Pawel
On 07/17/2012 11:49 AM, Cortell John-RAT042 wrote:
End-users
who have to resort to ‘kill’ or Task Manager after much
cursing will likely have a different take. A program that
becomes completely unresponsive or that crashes is
probably the most frustrating thing a user can experience,
particularly when there’s unsaved work at stake.
This
is the second time in the last year or so that I’ve heard
this interesting perspective: if you allow the symptom of
a bug/error-situation be as bad as it can be (a hang, a
crash), developers will be more likely to notice it and
more motivated to fix it. (The first was on a discussion
of parameter validation in C/C++ code). It seems to me
that position is reasonable when you’re talking about
issues you know for sure will reproduce at development
time. But there’s no way to ensure all possible failure
scenarios are seen during development, thus I personally
don’t think it’s acceptable to knowingly allow a crash or
hang.
Anyway,
that’s my two cents.
John
My personal
preference is to have a frozen UI since it forces
developers to fix it fast.
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