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This reminds of of two things:

Toyota's '5 Whys' root cause analysis, don't just fix the manifestation of the problem, but keep asking why it happened until you get to the real cause.

The NASA space shuttle programmers

http://www.fastcompany.com/28121/they-write-right-stuff

When they find a bug, they go to great lengths to find how and where in their process of programming this was able to happen, sometimes finding other bugs before they surface.



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