Quotes About Debugging

Given enough eyeballs, all bugs are shallow.

Programming is the art of algorithm design and the craft of debugging errant code.

There is always one more bug to fix.

I found out that most programmers don't like to test their software as intensely as I do.

One of the headaches of high-tech test programmes is having to debug the test arrangements before you can start debugging the things you're trying to test.

A very important part of game development is testing - something that a lot of developers don't do.

I realized that a large part of my life from then on was going to be spent in finding mistakes in my own programs.

If debugging is the process of removing bugs, then programming must be the process of putting them in.

Beta. Software undergoes beta testing shortly before it's released. Beta is Latin for "still doesn't work."

if(pot.coffee=EMPTY) {programmer->;brain=OFF};

Programmer - an organism that turns coffee into software.

Debugging is anticipated with distaste, performed with reluctance, and bragged about forever.

From then on, when anything went wrong with a computer, we said it had bugs in it.

Before you start to look at the bug, make sure that you are working on code that built cleanly—without warnings. We routinely set compiler warning levels as high as possible. It doesn't make sense to waste time trying to find a problem that the computer could find for you! We need to concentrate on the harder problems at hand.

The best way to start fixing a bug is to make it reproducible. After all, if you can't reproduce it, how will you know if it is ever fixed?

Debugging itself is a sensitive, emotional subject for many developers. Instead of attacking it as a puzzle to be solved, you may encounter denial, finger pointing, lame excuses, or just plain apathy.

Software testing is a sport like hunting, it's bughunting.

If you want more effective programmers, you will discover that they should not waste their time debugging, they should not introduce the bugs to start with.

'Programming' is a four-letter word.

Reusable rockets promise much easier testing because you should usually get them back, and you can debug as you go rather than having to get everything perfect the first time.

The most challenging part of programming is conceptualizing the problem, and many errors in programming are conceptual errors. Because

In debugging, errors are seen not as false but as fixable. This is a state of mind that makes it easy to learn from .6 Multiple passes also brought a new feel for the complexity of design decisions.

I do as much debugging as possible on the Mac, but I occasionally must debug problems in the PC world, which is significantly slower.

Debugging tip: For server applications, be sure to always specify the -server JVM command line switch when invoking the JVM, even for development and testing. The server JVM performs more optimization than the client JVM, such as hoisting variables out of a loop that are not modified in the loop; code that might appear to work in the development environment (client JVM) can break in the deployment environment (server JVM).