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The Debugging Mindset

Author(s) -

Devon O’Dell

Publication year - 2017

Publication title -

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Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 0.457

H-Index - 44

eISSN - 1542-7749

pISSN - 1542-7730

DOI - 10.1145/3055301.3068754

Subject(s) - debugging , computer science , algorithmic program debugging , programming language , software , mindset , software engineering , background debug mode interface , operating system , artificial intelligence

Software developers spend 35-50 percent of their time validating and debugging software. The cost of debugging, testing, and verification is estimated to account for 50-75 percent of the total budget of software development projects, amounting to more than $100 billion annually. While tools, languages, and environments have reduced the time spent on individual debugging tasks, they have not significantly reduced the total time spent debugging, nor the cost of doing so. Therefore, a hyperfocus on elimination of bugs during development is counterproductive; programmers should instead embrace debugging as an exercise in problem solving.

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