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Debugging by Thinking
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Debugging by Thinking

by Robert Charles Metzger
October 2003
Beginner to intermediate
600 pages
12h 12m
English
Digital Press
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Case Studies II

10.1 Case Study 2

10.1.1 The Program

The case studies in this book are intended to demonstrate the use of some of the concepts presented in the preceding chapters of this section of the book. The defects analyzed are the actual mistakes made by the author when developing this software. Different people are prone to make different mistakes. Focus on the method used in debugging, rather than the particular error in question.

This example presents a lexicographic sort that works on arrays of integers written in Java. The original design for this algorithm can be found in Aho, Hopcroft, and Ullman, The Design and Analysis of Computer Algorithms [AHU74]. A lexicographic sort orders a set of tuples or strings of values. Dictionaries ...

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