Guidelines For Debugging

• There is no recipe for successful debugging because every situation is different … but there are guidelines

1. Verify that the error is reproducible, i.e. make it happen again

• “Transient errors” can occur
• The error may have been caused by a state or configuration that was unknowingly set … get a “clean” instance of the bug
• When reproducing the error, try to formulate a “minimal” version of the system or program with the bug

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