Showing posts with label debug. Show all posts
Showing posts with label debug. Show all posts
Monday, 8 October 2012
How to: Eclipse Series - Conditional breakpoints - Debugging
In the following video you can learn how to set conditional breakpoints for debugging in the Eclipse IDE.
Saturday, 4 August 2012
What are the characteristics of a bad software engineer?
A friend of mine sent this link to me: What are the characteristics of a bad programmer?
The author mentions a few things which really made me remember some of my old colleagues. Especially this part:
The author mentions a few things which really made me remember some of my old colleagues. Especially this part:
They indulge in voodoo debuggingBad programmers will often shoot from the hip about why certain issues are happening, without proper disciplined investigation into surgically identifying what is going wrong. They will blame other people's code, 3rd party libraries, hardware and what not else without actually pinpointing issues.
Their coding algorithm is:
while (1) { change_something(); if (whatever you changed works) { break; }}
Rather than the one pass:
do_something_right();
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