CHAPTER 13
Testing Your Work
Software development is an incredibly error-prone process. The best way to identify bugs is to thoroughly test your work. Remember: Computer hardware, in general, doesn’t make mistakes. Yes, there have been rare microprocessor bugs.1 However, usually when computer hardware fails, it’s more catastrophic than an everyday error. The vast majority of computer errors are caused by software—be it firmware, BIOS, operating system, or most commonly, application-level software. Your software is bound to have bugs. You are only human; you’re not computer hardware. Hence, as a programmer, discovering and preventing bugs may ...
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