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Technical term anyone?

Technical term anyone?

Technical term anyone?

(OP)
In software development and use there is a very common and frustrating error:

"Not running what you think you're running."

This could be a simulation that appears to be immune to any changes in the model; models that give totally different results on different days or on different computers; source code or library changes that don't seem to have any effect.

I wonder if there is a technical term for it?

- Steve

RE: Technical term anyone?

"Yr Eff'd" ?

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A common conclusion on many failure analysis is "NDF" - No Defect Found.

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Windows?

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Government

Mike McCann
MMC Engineering

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"Deadline imminent"

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Gremlins

or


Ghost in the machine

 

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(OP)
Hmm, I'm starting to think that phrases involving words like "placebo" or "phantom" might work.

- Steve

RE: Technical term anyone?

Not running what you think you're running?


Sort of like

sitting in your car
  looking backward to back out
    stepping on the gas
      (the car is in drive, not reverse)

backing out of the garage....forward through the wall.

 

RE: Technical term anyone?

(OP)
Funny, I like that.

A more close analogy though might be filling up the wrong car with fuel.

- Steve

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... or digging out the Wrong car in winter.

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(OP)
"Changing the wrong cable" perhaps?

- Steve

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"Barking up the wrong tree"?

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(OP)
I've settled with "Changing the wrong cable".  Thanks all for being sound boards.  Thanks JAE for the lateral thinking  that helped.

All I have to do now is worm the phrase into a few tech support questions.

- Steve

RE: Technical term anyone?

how about "shaking the magic 8-ball?"  
 

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