When a specification is silent about a matter that seems important, that’s probably a risk area.

Mysterious silences may be caused by a simple oversight. Or maybe because that information is “obvious” (see the Obvious/Oblivious heuristic).

I smell bugs whenever I ask the developer about something and I get a shrug, or hear “I haven’t really thought about that.”

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