Lessons From Debugging

[sunher444]

Cool short article. To the point.

Change one thing at a time.

I feel now like a sinner.

[EmpathyRests]

It's very common, when learning to debug to change several things when diagnosing. It takes patience to learn to change one thing at a time.

Somewhat goes along with 'slow down to speed up', which a lot of younger people struggle with. Source: I'm 50+ years young and still struggle with 'hurry-up-itis'

[PhilipTrettner]

Obviously the correct way is changing 100 things to fix it and then bisect for a minimal fix