Debugging Windows Applications

Windows applications are the easiest to debug. You are working in the integrated environment, and Windows debugging tools are well developed. If you combine Debug, Trace, and Assert without breakpoints, you will find debugging Windows applications an almost enjoyable process.

Many of you have spent hundreds of hours debugging applications. Perhaps you have picked up books by Daniel Freedman and Gerald Weinberg [1990] or Dave Thielen [1992] for some advanced tips on debugging in general or worked as a tester when you were getting started. Thus I won't spend a lot of time talking to you about theory. (Besides, this isn't the best forum for that; a book on debugging would be better.)

I will tell you two secrets that ...

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