Debugging Software

CategoryDebugging:

Novice programmers could use a good pattern cookbook for debugging software applications. Is this too general to warrant a PatternLanguage? Debugging environments are very operating system and language dependent, but perhaps there are some general forces that can be dealt with.

Perhaps some of the pattern titles would look like:

• LocateDebuggingFacilities?
• InsertBreakPoints?
• LocateFailedProcedure?
• UseScaffoldingTechniques?
• IsolateAndTest?
• DecomposeToSimpleStatements?
• UseAssertions
• RewriteWhenUnclear?

Ah, maybe the problem domain is too large.

-- ToddCoram

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See DebuggingPatternLanguage.