Debugging
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Software Development
Fixing Bugs that can’t be Reproduced
There are bugs that can’t be reproduced, or at least not easily: intermittent and transient errors; bugs that disappear when…
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Software Development
Bug Fixing – to Estimate, or not to Estimate, that is the question
According to Steve McConnell in Code Complete (data from 1975-1992) most bugs don’t take long to fix. About 85% of…
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Software Development
Fixing Bugs – if you can’t reproduce them, you can’t fix them
‘Generally, if you can’t reproduce it, it’s almost impossible to fix’. Anonymous programmer, Practices of Software Maintenance, Janice Singer Fixing…
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Core Java
Debugging the JVM
In some (rare) cases you might find yourself in the situation that you managed to crash the JVM itself. I…
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DevOps
How to solve production problems
At my job, I’m finding that a large percentage of the questions that come to my desk are “Hey this…
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Core Java
Debugging a Production Server – Eclipse and JBoss showcase
Do you write code that has bugs? No, of course not. For the rest of us, mere mortals, who do…
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