Exception Handling
A mechanism in automation systems for handling cases not covered by the automated workflow. Without a clearly assigned owner for the exception queue, work is merely shifted rather than eliminated, which is the most common cause of automation business failure.
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The labor cost of exception handling is often underestimated; a system that handles 80% of cases may offset the efficiency gains if no one is responsible for the remaining 20%.
Catching an exception inside a span is a dangerous move, because it suppresses two independent signals at once: the exception itself, and the status marking that should have followed it.
When a catch swallows an exception and returns nil, an empty object or HTTP 200, this is not code cleanup but a behavior change, and should be reviewed as strictly as modifying an API contract.
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The labor cost of exception handling is often underestimated; a system that handles 80% of cases may offset the efficiency gains if no one is responsible for the remaining 20%.
50%UnverifiedCatching an exception inside a span is a dangerous move, because it suppresses two independent signals at once: the exception itself, and the status marking that should have followed it.
50%UnverifiedWhen a catch swallows an exception and returns nil, an empty object or HTTP 200, this is not code cleanup but a behavior change, and should be reviewed as strictly as modifying an API contract.
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