2. General-Purpose Methods and Practices
The way you debug a failure often depends on the underlying technology and development platform. Yet, there are methods that you can use on a wide variety of cases.
Item 9: Set Yourself Up for Debugging Success
Software is often extremely complex. The movement of a mechanical watch comprises just over a hundred parts; the wiring of your entire home can have a few times as many simple components. Compare that with typical software systems, which easily consist of tens of thousands of complex statements. At the high end, consider the 9 million lines of code in the Linux kernel against the 4 million physical components in an A380 airliner. Your mind needs all the help it can get to conquer this complexity. ...
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