Lexicon

Hidden Errors

Kind: quality-attribute

Layer: Correctness Core

Record: lexicon:hidden-errors

Canonical: Lexicon

The degree to which catching failures at a boundary can obscure the underlying errors from view.

Listed in Lexicon terms, after Consistency / Feature Completeness and before Load Amplification.

Category

  • Error Handling / Resilience

In tension with

  • Error Boundaries
  • Error Boundaries / Hidden Errors

Linked from

  • Error Handling / Resilience
  • The resolutions