Visual Basic® .NET Power Coding

Summary

Debugging software is an expensive part of the maintenance process, which is itself a significant cost of software ownership. The more knowledgeable you are of the debugging process and the tools available that support debugging, the less time and effort you will spend finding and resolving bugs. Some well-known authors and developers have even suggested that testers should be at least as good at programming as the people who write the code themselves. I am inclined to agree that this would be a desirable state of affairs, but too often the only testing done is by the programmers. Thus we need to be well equipped to satisfy this unfortunate dual role.

In this chapter you learned that Visual Basic .NET has significant support for debugging ...