Debugging
eBook - ePub

Debugging

  1. 192 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

Debugging

About this book

When the pressure is on to resolve an elusive software or hardware glitch, what's needed is a cool head courtesy of a set of rules guaranteed to work on any system, in any circumstance.

Written in a frank but engaging style, this book provides simple, foolproof principles guaranteed to help find any bug quickly. Recognized tech expert and author David Agans changes the way you think about debugging, making those pesky problems suddenly much easier to find and fix.

Agans identifies nine simple, practical rules that are applicable to any software application or hardware system, which can help detect any bug, no matter how tricky or obscure. Illustrating the rules with real-life bug-detection war stories, Debugging shows you how to:

  • Understand the system: how perceiving the ""roadmap"" can hasten your journey
  • Quit thinking and look: when hands-on investigation can't be avoided
  • Isolate critical factors: why changing one element at a time can be an essential tool
  • Keep an audit trail: how keeping a record of the debugging process can win the day

Whether the system or program you're working on has been designed wrong, built wrong, or used wrong, Debugging helps you think correctly about bugs, so the problems virtually reveal themselves.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title
  3. Copyright
  4. Contents
  5. Acknowledgments
  6. Chapter 1: Introduction
  7. Chapter 2: The Rules—Suitable for Framing
  8. Chapter 3: Understand the System
  9. Chapter 4: Make It Fail
  10. Chapter 5: Quit Thinking and Look
  11. Chapter 6: Divide and Conquer
  12. Chapter 7: Change One Thing at a Time
  13. Chapter 8: Keep an Audit Trail
  14. Chapter 9: Check the Plug
  15. Chapter 10: Get a Fresh View
  16. Chapter 11: If You Didn’t Fix It, It Ain’t Fixed
  17. Chapter 12: All the Rules in One Story
  18. Chapter 13: Easy Exercises for the Reader
  19. Chapter 14: The View from the Help Desk
  20. Chapter 15: The Bottom Line
  21. Index
  22. Author