Bug Levels

by Tom Schneider

There are several stages of fixing a bug:

Getting a wrong result but not recognizing it.
Getting an obviously wrong result.
Recognizing that there is a bug.
Trapping the bug in a specific demonstration where one can see that it is wrong but one can't tell why.
Identifying the wrong logic.
Fixing the wrong logic.
Confirming that the logic is fixed.
Confirming that the correction has not messed up something else.

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Schneider Lab
origin: 2004 Aug 26
updated: 2004 Aug 26
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