Debugging - Using Hypotheses to Track Down the Culprit

Table of Contents

1. Rules of Debugging

1.1. Actual message received from a student

1.2. Wasted Effort

2. Don't Guess, Hypothesize

2.1. Guessing

2.2. Hypothesizing

2.3. Debugging as a Series of Science Experiments

3. Narrowing the Search

3.1. Divide and Conquer

3.2. Multiple Possible Causes

4. If you didn't fix it, it ain't fixed!

4.1. Grounds for Suspicion