Archive for the ‘testing/debugging’ Category
Monday, March 30th, 2009
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You do test your code, right?
Well? We certainly hope so.
Testing can be a pain. But it should also be a habit. And we think it's pretty uncontroversial to say that testing your code is a Good Thing. The Scientist-Programmer often finds a tension between ...
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Monday, December 22nd, 2008
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Testing your code is important. Pretty much vital, in fact. This is because if you don't test your code, you don't know if it really works. So an integral part of any software project is to come up with a good set of tests ...
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Friday, October 10th, 2008
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This is an article about maintaining your code once it's written. By this point, your project is useful. People (possibly you) are using it to actually do some science. However, there's more still to be done and it would be a very bad plan ...
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Monday, October 6th, 2008
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Debugging is a very different task from coding and it benefits from a different mindset. Finding bugs can take time and can involve a lot of trial, error and testing of different thoughts as to what might be going wrong, because there are lots ...
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Monday, September 29th, 2008
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"I just can't find what's wrong with my code..."
Sometimes you just can't see why your code isn't working. It's clearly broken , but you have no idea why. Frustrating, isn't it? Happily, there are good tactics you can employ when this happens to find ...
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