Skip to main content
COMPUTATIONAL-THINKING4 MIN READ

Sort Failure Modes Before Shipping

Classify failure responses based on risk and control strategy.

Place each failure response into the control strategy it best represents. Prevent Detect Recover Accept Block duplicate primary keys before the import can run Alert when imported row count differs from the source by more than 2% Store the original uploaded file so a bad import can be rolled back Allow capitalization differences in optional description fields Require a valid customer ID before creating any account record Show a warning when a date is outside the current fiscal year Keep a retry queue for temporary API timeouts Ignore extra whitespace in non-critical comment fields

Read the full lesson

Sign up free — one personalized lesson every day, matched to your role and goals.

Already have an account? Sign in

← Back to library
Contact us