Assumptions are sneaky

This blog post is a weekly update of my journey in Djangonaut Space , an 8-week mentoring program for future open source developers in the Django ecosystem. Series: 3… 2… 1… becoming a Djangonaut Djangonaut Log 1: Lift-off and first week in Djangonaut Space Debugging a flaky test — how I methodologically tamed an annoying bug Assumptions are sneaky (you are here) The number 1 thing I always talk and write about in regards to debugging is to leave assumptions at the door and validate everything before following your assumptions. Yesterday, I failed miserably to follow my own advice. I fell into the classic trap: I thought I knew how a thing works. While I was helping a team mate to set up her development environment, we discovered a broken test. I had seen it before and had done a workaround for my own setup but I felt it was a good idea now to fix it so others wouldn’t have to. I hate telling people “just do this trick and ignore it” while ignoring the issue. These things have a…