Scientific debugging

October 28, 2010

Scientific debugging # Quite some years ago I ready Why programs fail - a systematic guide to debugging - a book written on the art of debugging programs written by Andreas Zeller (Prof. at University Saarbrücken, researcher working on Mining Software Archives, Automated Debugging, Mutation Testing and Mining Models and one of the authors of famous Data Display Debugger). One aspect that I found particularly intriguing about the book was up to then known to me only from the book Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: Scientific debugging as a way to find bugs in a piece of software in a structured way with methods usually known from the scientific method. ...