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.