Modern multithreaded, asynchronous code can be hard to debug. The complexity that comes with message passing and thread management results in bugs that can seem non-determinant, with little or no way ...

Back in the day, we'd write some code, compile, execute, see what happened and repeat. That was testing. (Sometimes that's still what testing looks like, for better or worse.) Today, we can do a lot ...

Make it a habit to dig deeper and find more information about the issue before starting to debug a non-trivial issue. For example: is this a new problem? If so, starting when? Is this only visible to ...

Running a debugger like gdb with real-mode 16-bit code on the x86 platform is not the easiest thing to do, but incredibly useful when it comes to analyzing BIOS firmware and DOS software. Although ...

“You will see a few warnings when you compile the code; you can safely ignore those,” the engineer claimed confidently. He had contacted me the previous day stating that he had found a bug in our ...

After Claude decisively won my solar system simulator test, I expected it to have no trouble fixing ChatGPT’s broken code.

With the June 2021 release of VS Code, Microsoft also unveiled plans for improving the editor’s Java support in coming months. Microsoft has released version 1.58 of Visual Studio Code, also known as ...

“We’re building products for a diverse society, and we need the people that build them to represent that diversity." By Megan Soll Code Debugging The Gender Gap - H 2015 The Hollywood Reporter rounds ...