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7. Debugging and Profiling

Bruce Johnson1 
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ObjectSharp Consulting, Toronto, ON, Canada
 

As a developer, you are going to spend a large part of your time debugging code. Not your code, naturally. Your code is completely covered by unit tests and has no bugs whatsoever. But other people’s code. People who don’t have the benefit of your many years of experience, or your skills in crafting bulletproof solutions. Or maybe third-party or open source code. Sometimes there are bugs in those too.

Hopefully the tongue-in-cheek nature of that opening paragraph was obvious. But the point is still valid. You are going to spend a significant portion of your ...

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