Questions tagged [debugging]
Debugging is the process of examining the state of a program - generally with a debugging tool - while it is running and attempting to find bugs that cause it to behave abnormally.
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How to test the tests?
We test our code to make it more correct (actually, less likely to be incorrect). However, the tests are also code -- they can also contain errors. And if your tests are buggy, they hardly make your ...
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How to most effectively debug code? [closed]
Bugs creeping into code can be minimized, but not entirely eliminated as it is written - programmers are, although many would disagree, only humans.
When we do detect an error in our code, what can ...
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Debugging applications
In my current developement, I have decided to keep the command prompt open so I can see debug messages. For example, if something wasn't happening when it should, I would put a cout statement at every ...
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Why do new programmers seem to ignore compiler error messages/runtime exception messages? [closed]
I think we’ve all seen this. Beginners ask questions on Stack Overflow that follow the basic outline...
I’m trying to do (very vague description of the goal) but it doesn’t work/I get an error/...
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