Poll: How many reported exceptions are in your production environment?

6 points by bradgessler 13y ago ↗ HN

We'd all love to run a "zero defect" culture but its impossible in a production environment. What is an acceptable number of defects to have in production?

Bring up Airbrake, Exceptional, or whatever tool you use to track this and report your count. How do you stack up against the rest? Vote below and we'll find out!

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zurn 13y ago ↗

Improve phrasing - define exceptions as either programming language "exception" conditions or exceptions to defect management policy, and clarify further (eg. only a subset of pl exceptions are defects or undersireable)

bradgessler 13y ago ↗

I was thinking when you login to a tool like http://airbrake.io/ you see a total count. What is that number?

showsover 13y ago ↗

We're completely rewriting our main product and are coming to an end soon-ish. The old code had no useful tests, but there were some that went to our API to test some CRUD. Online.

We now have fixed that and have tests for the more complicated code we have, but we don't really track exceptions. Besides Airbrake and Exceptional, are there any exception trackers for PHP / Symfony2?

90% done, only 90% left to go.

brianr 13y ago ↗

Try Rollbar (https://rollbar.com) - we have an official PHP library.

There's also a Symfony2 bundle contributed by the community: https://github.com/staffim/StaffimRollbarBundle

showsover 13y ago ↗

That looks interesting, and a nice integration with SF2! I'm going to check it out with my teamlead, thanks!

asperous 13y ago ↗

Wouldn't this wildly vary by industry and solution scenario?

thecombjelly 13y ago ↗

Over what time period? We have an average of less than 1 exception per month.

I have also worked on a larger web app that would get thousands of exceptions per day.

I think near 0 is very possible as long as you aggressively attack all exceptions as they show up. Once you start letting some go they tend to pile up exponentially. I keep my phone on me and every time, day or night, that an exception occurs I get notified; it keeps me very motivated to fix problems quickly.