I'm practicing writing debugging stories. What word do you use to describe how the state of the system looked from a perspective of some component?
I want to say "believe" but not sure if programs really believing in anything.
"The authentication service believed that the user was not logged in"
@ptman I think it's typically programmers doing the assuming, not the programs.
E.g. a component having stale cache data does not seem like an assumption to me.