The Art of Resolving Bugs – Debugging
The Art of Resolving Bugs – Debugging
A Secret life of a Developer.
Since ages, the time computer was invented and people started becoming aware about the programming, started learning about programming, there has been no time where the programmers would have had a sigh of relief… While developing, the programmers somehow face the issues and get stuck somewhere…This lead then sleepless nights and scratching heads hard…
Do you know what is that called???? BUG!!!!
These bugs create trouble in the system that disables a system to work properly as programmed… These bugs are basically the errors that happen while programming… The developers or programmers have to scan through the whole set of codes written and find the bug and solve it… It isn’t an easy task to find the bug and solve it…
As per my experience and observation, not everyone is equipped to solve the bugs, it is an ART and only few developers can debug…
Here is share with you few tips for the ART of resolving the BUGS
Understand the birth place and cause of a bug – For a developer, it is very important to first understand the place where the bug has raised before jumping into the solution. Assuming the bug and trying to solve it will lead to creation of more bugs. So good ideas is to step aside and try to interpret the problem from factual lens and then solve exactly where in the code the issue is. Scan the codes and find the bug and identify its type
Search for proper solution – Once you have found the bug, do not create a patch for it, rather understand it clearly, analyze it, find the reason for the bug and then find out an appropriate solution for it
Fix the Bug – After the above two steps, it’s time to fix it with the right solution
Make it kick ass – After you have found the bug, its solution and its fixing too is done, the developers work doesn’t end here… For the bug to not arise again, the right things is retesting it and trying to break it. Once it passes through this, the solution is the appropriate one.
Tips:
- If you are stuck somewhere, do not sit vacant, try to find the solution for the bug using Google or Git or any other website related to the framework and find the solution
- If still you are not able to find the bug, utilize human resources of the organization and seek help
- Walk through the code in your mind
- All bugs are not same, thus same solution will not be applied to all the errors
- Be calm and patient while finding and solving a bug
- First step is to code effectively so that the bug doesn’t arise at all
At OTFCoder, one of the strength is our CEO who holds an expertise in solving the bugs, since years he has been resolving ample amount of bugs in his career. He can easily get to know the root cause of the bug and find an appropriate solution. His ability to even understand any ongoing project and work on it with efficiency is tremendous…
