Debugging: The 9 Indispensable Rules for Finding Even the Most Elusive Software and Hardware Problems

When the pressure is on to get to the bottom of an elusive software or hardware glitch, what’s needed is a cool head courtesy of a algorithm guaranteed to work on any system, in any circumstance.

Written in a frank but engaging style, this book provides simple, foolproof principles guaranteed to lend a hand find any bug quickly. Recognized tech expert and writer David Agans changes the way you consider debugging, making those pesky problems unexpectedly much easier to find and fix.

Agans identifies nine simple, practical rules that are applicable to any software application or hardware system, which can lend a hand detect any bug, no matter how tricky or difficult to understand. 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 will also 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 unsuitable, built unsuitable, or used unsuitable, Debugging helps you think appropriately about bugs, so the problems virtually reveal themselves.