In my opinion the reason that debugging isn't treated as a first-class activity is that it isn't taught at all in schools. Or at least it wasn't when I was in school. We were given about 2 sentences that said, "the…
This is known as regression testing, and it's extremely useful. For example, you find some bug where, say, a calculation produces a nonsense result. You fix it, then add a test for what you just fixed. 2 years from now,…
In my opinion the reason that debugging isn't treated as a first-class activity is that it isn't taught at all in schools. Or at least it wasn't when I was in school. We were given about 2 sentences that said, "the…
This is known as regression testing, and it's extremely useful. For example, you find some bug where, say, a calculation produces a nonsense result. You fix it, then add a test for what you just fixed. 2 years from now,…