Upgrade to Pro — share decks privately, control downloads, hide ads and more …

The Scientific Method of Troubleshooting

98bcb9a1d462d6ea907fade0d601ea04?s=47 Blithe Rocher
August 02, 2014
Programming
0
74

The Scientific Method of Troubleshooting

This version of the talk was presented at eurucamp 2014.

98bcb9a1d462d6ea907fade0d601ea04?s=128

Blithe Rocher

August 02, 2014
Tweet

More Decks by Blithe Rocher

See All by Blithe Rocher
98bcb9a1d462d6ea907fade0d601ea04?s=48 blithe
1
130
98bcb9a1d462d6ea907fade0d601ea04?s=48 blithe
1
150
98bcb9a1d462d6ea907fade0d601ea04?s=48 blithe
2
540

Other Decks in Programming

See All in Programming
Ad4c3c738e57a9bbcb800871e81c232d?s=48 itosho525
0
130
1623dd1adf096ba35ba33727d933e14c?s=48 nbkouhou
9
4.5k
Ca17a082a30f4cbfed1d0a6dacbe3af2?s=48 shin1x1
0
590
E473e5af1263c050599921981db46068?s=48 akatsukinewgrad
0
140
E37b4344ef4bfd0fc4826c04971e54fb?s=48 nrslib
20
13k
Ad8afdde67ccf5cccbde704dd9e35f84?s=48 jun0
3
640
E473e5af1263c050599921981db46068?s=48 akatsukinewgrad
0
140
9eca6d3a5658ef22998083a3d8e7ec44?s=48 shigeruoda
0
460
2102a6b8760bd6f57f672805723dd83a?s=48 line_developers_tw
0
370
1d5a7a934b466ede82b89a39b1404c0b?s=48 daiki1020
0
1.1k
22e056dcb79e14363e844f1e57986325?s=48 aratayokoyama
0
190
Ad4c3c738e57a9bbcb800871e81c232d?s=48 itosho525
0
350

Featured

See All Featured
9cde37f47e4a800ea081ea42de8d749a?s=48 dougneiner
119
7.8k
5ce91fa49a613cbc3e20d5f96856473f?s=48 edds
56
9.3k
A415db3ac9e9668acbc1fb36eead84ac?s=48 mthomps
39
2.3k
3d4519fd34b76fb265fc0237f3792bd4?s=48 danielanewman
1
470
245cee81a9c424266e5e401d844ea881?s=48 lara
590
61k
Fde6c3a50ca518a909ef35c22c0ee0e4?s=48 destraynor
146
19k
7653c7c449918ff6542880a8c284f5e7?s=48 jponch
103
4.9k
Fe6b81005d1553accd6b2a28f6a2bef1?s=48 phodgson
87
3.9k
B3d6434763caa0ef5dc4b792662c49f7?s=48 smashingmag
229
18k
651dcfe41723207fbb0aa044a4f7c07f?s=48 dotmariusz
94
5.1k
3ab1249be442027903e1180025340b3f?s=48 reverentgeek
168
7.1k
C0b42577cfc2b321be3474618107e933?s=48 samanthasiow
56
6.3k

Transcript

  1. The Scientific Method of Troubleshooting

  2. @blithe

  3. Big Nerd Ranch Atlanta, Georgia

  4. Scientist

  5. PhD in Physical Chemistry

  6. Physics

  7. Chemistry

  8. 6 Years!

  9. Experiments

  10. Scientific Method

  11. Developer < >

  12. StackOverflow

  13. Problem solved?

  14. Learn anything?

  15. Most Important Part

  16. Scientific Method

  17. Set of Techniques For Acquiring Knowledge

  18. Methodical

  19. Systematic

  20. “Has anyone seen string interpolation fail?”

  21. Define the Problem

  22. Expected behavior? ! ! !

  23. Expected behavior? ! Actual behavior? !

  24. Expected behavior? ! Actual behavior? ! Criteria for success?

  25. Do Your Research

  26. Know your environment

  27. Read the literature

  28. Discussions

  29. Make it fail!

  30. Establish a Hypothesis

  31. Design the Experiment

  32. Divide and conquer!

  33. Limit the variables

  34. Try something weird

  35. None

  36. Hierarchy of Blame

  37. Gather Data

  38. Current status?

  39. Read the error message!

  40. Analyze Your Results

  41. Problem solved? ! Learn anything?

  42. Understand the Why

  43. Future Experiments

  44. Embrace the Success

  45. Keep a Good Lab Notebook

  46. None

  47. You won’t remember

  48. Logs aren’t enough

  49. Commit Messages

  50. Update the Docs

  51. Contribute

  52. None

  53. Share the Knowledge

  54. Thanks! @blithe