{"product_id":"debug-it-find-repair-and-prevent-bugs-in-your-code-9781934356289","title":"Debug It!: Find, Repair, and Prevent Bugs in Your Code","description":"Some developers thrash around aimlessly looking for a bug without concrete results. Others have the knack of unerringly zeroing in on the root cause of a bug. Are they geniuses? Just lucky? No, they've learned the secrets of professional debugging. This book will equip you with the tools, techniques and approaches-proven in the crucible of professional software development-to ensure that you can tackle any bug with confidence. \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e You'll learn how to handle every stage of the bug life-cycle, from constructing software that makes debugging easy, through detection, reproduction, diagnosis and rolling out your eventual fix.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e If you develop software, sooner or later you're going to discover that it doesn't always behave as you intended. Working out why it's misbehaving can be hard. Sometimes \u003cb\u003every\u003c\/b\u003e hard. \u003ci\u003eDebug It!\u003c\/i\u003e is here to help!\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e All bugs are different: there is no silver bullet. You've got to rely upon your intellect, intuition, detective skills and yes, even a little luck. But that doesn't mean that you're completely on your own-there is much you can learn from those who have gone before. This book distills decades of hard-won experience gained in the trenches of professional software development, giving you a head-start and arming you with the tools you need to get to the bottom of the problem, whatever you're faced with.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Whether you're writing Java or assembly language, targeting servers or embedded micro-controllers, using agile or traditional approaches, the same basic bug-fixing principles apply. From constructing software that is easy to debug (and incidentally less likely to contain bugs in the first place), through handling bug reports to rolling out your ultimate fix, we'll cover the entire life-cycle of a bug.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e You'll learn about the empirical approach, which leverages your software's unique ability to \u003cb\u003eshow\u003c\/b\u003e you what's really happening, the importance of finding a reliable and convenient means of reproducing a bug, and common pitfalls so you can avoid them. You'll see how to use commonly available tools to automatically detect problems before they're reported by customers and how to construct \"transparent software\" that provides access to critical information and internal state.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003ePaul Butcher started out writing games for 8-bit home computers before he was a teenager, and since then has worked in diverse fields at all levels of abstraction, from microcode on bit-slice processors to high-level declarative programming and all points in between. He's been using agile approaches for the last several years, although had adopted many of the same techniques before the agile movement gave them a name. Paul's depth of experience derives from a history of working for startups in which he's had the privilege of working with several great teams on cutting edge technology.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn an attempt to demonstrate that he's at least as fast as Lewis Hamilton, Paul totaled his race-car last year. So no more playing with expensive toys for the time being-but he will be back on track soon!\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Pragmatic Bookshelf","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50446278000914,"sku":"9781934356289","price":34.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_d8228c1e-182b-4702-99af-4c0b41dcba57.jpg?v=1729706472","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/debug-it-find-repair-and-prevent-bugs-in-your-code-9781934356289","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}