Diagnosing a crasher (was Re: Quality, reputation, and improving both)

[Curry Kenworthy]

Chiming in again since it dovetails with today's work:

Crashing bugs (and others) sometimes require a missing 
factor/context/detail in the original real-world project that is tricky 
to reproduce in independent test stacks. You have to compensate for that.

I filed this crasher today, but had to use a slightly more "extreme" 
example compared to the original real-project-crasher to get 100% 
reliable open-click-crash independent test stack:

(Save work before running)

https://quality.livecode.com/show_bug.cgi?id=22586

Best wishes,

Curry Kenworthy

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