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Winston Churchill wrote:
There is nothing more exhilarating than to be shot at with no result.
Unlike him, I've never been shot at, but today I dodged a metaphorical bullet.
Working as a dev, I've never liked acceptance testing. I want it to be uneventful because all the issues were already fixed, but nothing ever goes that smoothly. Yesterday, one element of a big suite of changes was doing bad things, but they made no sense. The code shouldn't do what it was doing. If it's doing that, it's down to me getting it wrong. Uh-oh...
Eventually, after much tail chasing, I found that one of my esteemed colleagues deployed a version without my changes, which is easily fixed. I had been shot at with no result! It was indeed exhilirating. I wasn't in the shit.