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The Art of Debugging

Remy Sharp
October 11, 2015
Technology
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The Art of Debugging

The slides for my "Art of Debugging" talk at Fronteers 2015. The slides themselves don't have much information, but I've written up the entire talk and included the live examples I included on my blog: https://remysharp.com/art-of-debugging

Remy Sharp

October 11, 2015
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Transcript

  1. Remy Sharp ● @rem ● remysharp.com
    The Art of Debugging

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  2. Don’t

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  3. Write

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  4. Bugs

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  6. Although…

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  7. But…Remy,
    frameworks…?
    Disclaimer #1

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  8. Sssh…I rarely 

    x-browser testing
    Disclaimer #2

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  9. The art of
    debugging

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  11. 1. Replicate

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  12. 2. Isolate

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  13. 3. Eliminate

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  14. Art of debugging
    Replicate methodically
    Isolate carefully
    Eliminate entirely

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  15. Art of debugging
    Replicate methodically
    Isolate carefully
    Eliminate entirely

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  16. State

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  17. Passive state

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  18. Interactive state

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  19. The stack

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  20. Inside out
    vs
    Outside in

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  21. Favs ❤

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  22. There is no
    silver bullet.

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