Java 23 for Absolute Beginners: Learn the Fundamentals of Java Programming

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9. Debugging, Testing, and Documenting

Iuliana Cosmina¹  

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Edinburgh, UK

 

Development work requires you to not only design the solution for a problem and write the code for it but also test it to make sure your solution solves the problem. Testing involves making sure every component making up your solution behaves as expected in both expected and unexpected situations.

The most practical way to test code is to inspect values of intermediary variables by logging them and printing them in the console in specific situations.

When a solution is complex, debugging provides the opportunity ...