August 2017
Intermediate to advanced
468 pages
12h 5m
English
Software debugging is an iterative activity involving execution testing and code correction. It differs significantly from implementation testing, which will be covered in the next chapter. Implementation testing is aimed at demonstrating the application's correctness, and can be performed in various ways, some of which might not even involve code execution. Debugging, on the other hand, is aimed at locating and correcting code defects.
Debugging is a multi-step process, which can be outlined by the following process diagram:

As seen in the preceding diagram, the process starts with executing the code under a particular ...