Debugging without a debugger

Apr 23, 2014 • Jonathan Frederic

Hi all,

Here’s a chart that I drew which tries to explain the fundamental idea of debugging.  It excludes complex tools found in professional debuggers like stacks traces, register/variable dumps, breakpoints, etc…

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Edit:

So I couldn’t resist and I went ahead and simplified the diagram.  I think the following conveys the same message and is still concise:

 

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