I Need A Word. Wordsmiths, Can You Help?

[Pedersen]

I need a new word. Definition: The nagging feeling that the problem you were working on is still there, waiting to return, even though you can't find any evidence that the problem you were working on hasn't been solved.

Just had this happen today. Spent much of the day working on PHP and mysql and escaping database parameters. The problem looks solved. No warnings are being thrown. No errors are being left around.

And yet, I'm still sure the code has the same bug in it that it did when I started.

Anybody know of such a word?

[Kal]

Not in an actual language, but coincidentally there's one in the Discworld books.
"P’ch’zarni’chiwkov" which translates as "the nasty little sound of a sword being unsheathed right behind one at just the point when one thought one had disposed of one’s enemies".

It's not ideal, but it's amazing quite how often it applies to work.

[Teskeria]

Lol. Usually I just call it Dejavu.

[dalesys]

H.P. defined it in 1928... Cthulu!

[Geek King]

A Lurking Error

Bugarang

Phil (He was a coder when I was a tester. You had to know him, I guess.)

Error Creep

[bainsidhe]

Ghost in the machine. You can't see it, but you know it's there.

Personally, I like the suggestion of Phil, lol.

[Pedersen]

Bugarang. I like that word.

Thank you

[Kristev]

Disturbed.

It is the sensation that is reported in some victims just before a shark attack.

[Pharm Girl]

Sense of impending doom.

[Hanzoku]

Murphy.

I blame just about everything on him and his law.

[Mytical]

Techosense. Works like spidey sense sort of .

[Der Cute]

Instinct. Gut feeling. Spidey sense. Dread.

[lobo94]

H.P. defined it in 1928... Cthulu!

If he calls collect...don't accept the charges.

[Geek King]

Bugarang. I like that word.

Thank you

No charge.

Personally, I like the suggestion of Phil, lol.

Oh, Phil was special. Often, I would bounce a problem back to Phil, and he'd get it fixed in the next version. No problem, right?

Well, then Phil would somehow reintroduce the exact same error back into the code a couple versions later. Fortunately, all the change tests were run again for the "clean" final test before showing the customer, so it would be caught.

[Jester]

Deja doom.

The nagging feeling that somehow, some way, you're going to have to do this all over again.