Incident Dossier

The Order That Stayed Open

A checkout flow records an order as placed even when one of its items cannot be deducted from inventory. The order shows up in the order list, the customer is charged, and the warehouse has no stock to fulfill.

Initial failing signalplaceOrder returns success despite insufficient inventoryExpected behavior: rejects with insufficient inventory · actual behavior: resolves with order recorded

Progress

1Reproduce the bugRun checks

2Edit the fixOpen

3Pass checksOpen

4Submit fixOpen

Reproduction Steps

Run npm test.
Trace the failure handling around the inner deduction step.
Notice that an error from one of the items does not abort the outer call.
Make a failure in any inner step reject the outer placement.

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src/orders.js

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src/orders.js

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TopicReliability

DifficultyMedium

Est. time18 min

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