I totally agree with "Debugging is an art and discipline in and of itself" for issues that are difficult to reproduce. With a reproduction, debugging should be straightforward for any engineer.
For reproducible issues, it's scientific method plug and chug for me: observe an interesting behavior, theorize about cause, test, rinse, repeat.
Unfortunately, I am too often amazed at the engineers that don't go through this exercise before asking for help.
For reproducible issues, it's scientific method plug and chug for me: observe an interesting behavior, theorize about cause, test, rinse, repeat.
Unfortunately, I am too often amazed at the engineers that don't go through this exercise before asking for help.