List/Grid Tag Archives: Debugging
Hunting a Random Bug – A True Story
A few weeks ago, I finished a bug hunt for the RapidFTR open source project, which took me three evenings. I thought it might be worth sharing the story of the hunt. This article will ...
It’s Not an Issue. It’s a Bug.
When something goes wrong, do you or do you not say something like this:My bug crashed the system. Our bug crashed the system. Some bug crashed the system. There’s a defect. We ...
Fixing Bugs that can’t be Reproduced
There are bugs that can’t be reproduced, or at least not easily: intermittent and transient errors; bugs that disappear when you try to look for them; bugs that occur as the result ...
Bug Fixing – to Estimate, or not to Estimate, that is the question
According to Steve McConnell in Code Complete (data from 1975-1992) most bugs don’t take long to fix. About 85% of errors can be fixed in less than a few hours. Some more can be fixed ...
Fixing Bugs – if you can’t reproduce them, you can’t fix them
‘Generally, if you can’t reproduce it, it’s almost impossible to fix’. Anonymous programmer, Practices of Software Maintenance, Janice Singer ...
Debugging the JVM
In some (rare) cases you might find yourself in the situation that you managed to crash the JVM itself. I most recently managed this by setting the name of a ThreadGroup to null. In ...
How to solve production problems
At my job, I’m finding that a large percentage of the questions that come to my desk are “Hey this thing you did is broken” or “Hey, this thing you worked with is on the fritz.” ...
Debugging a Production Server – Eclipse and JBoss showcase
Do you write code that has bugs? No, of course not. For the rest of us, mere mortals, who do write code with bugs, I would like to address a very sensitive issue: debugging an application ...
