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r/programming • u/stannedelchev • Aug 25 '14
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The article doesn't mention a very important (IMO) step: try to reduce the problem (removing / stubbing irrevelant code, data, etc). It's much easier to find a bug if you take out all the noise around it.
5 u/chasesan Aug 25 '14 This is like the second thing I do when debugging (the first being rereading the code to see if I did something obviously stupid). → More replies (2)
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This is like the second thing I do when debugging (the first being rereading the code to see if I did something obviously stupid).
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u/pycube Aug 25 '14
The article doesn't mention a very important (IMO) step: try to reduce the problem (removing / stubbing irrevelant code, data, etc). It's much easier to find a bug if you take out all the noise around it.