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by mythz
3132 days ago
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> Keep running your app although integrity corruption within the application happened is putting user data at risk. If user data is continually backed up to a remote site it's not going to be at risk from a local bug is it? Bugs exist in all software, Users are going to be be more visibly frustrated from their Apps frequently crashing then the extremely unlikely scenario where a detected bug corrupts their "3 days long presentation". They're going very unhappy if the cause of their frequent data loss was due to a user-hostile setting to hard crash on the first detectable bug. > Microsoft have invented "Application Recovery and Restart" exactly for this purpose. From Microsoft website: > An application can use Application Recovery and Restart (ARR) to save data and state information before the application exits due to an unhandled exception or when the application stops responding. - https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/cc9... i.e. restarting Apps due to "unhandled exception or when the application stops responding" in which case the App is in an unusable state and ARR kicks in to try auto recover it for minimal user disruption. The focus on providing a good UX, not a miserable crash-prone experience where users use their devices in fear that at anytime anything they're working on can be terminated abruptly without warning. |
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Data corruption - reading or writing corrupted data - files cannot be read, saved files get corrupted, API calls from/to external applications/systems fail or pass incorrect data Rendering problems - corrupted images, incorrect colors, improper content encoding, visual stuttering, audio deformation, audio skipping Input/output lags - unregistered kaystrokes, missed actions and responses to external events, mouse stuttering and misbehavior Improper operation - inconsistent results - repeated rendering yields different results (html), formulas/calculation results in data is inconsistent (excel, DWH) Access violation - access gained to invalid or protected areas - unprivileged access, license violations, access to areas protected by AAA, data theft (SQL injection, database dumps)
and others. If I figure out the application I'm using (web-browser) allowed a hacker to steal my data he would not have otherwise access to I would be more pissed off than if it crashed and I found an error about it in system log.