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Re: Two stages of debugging

From Victor Porton <porton@narod.ru>
Newsgroups comp.programming
Subject Re: Two stages of debugging
Date 2018-09-20 22:37 +0300
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Victor Porton wrote:

> Which of the following two stages of debugging should be done first?
> 
> 1. manual testing
> 2. proof-reading the code
> 
> The purpose is to create quality code faster.
> 
> Automatic testing is nearly impossible for this project (because the
> tester needs to interact with PayPal).
> 
> The project is to be debugged again after refactoring.
> 
> It is https://github.com/vporton/django-debits

The right choice was first test, then proof-read.

The reason for this is: Testing reveals *many* bugs, they need to be dealt 
first. The proof-reading is an *additional* measure to reach quality after 
there are no known bugs.

-- 
Victor Porton - http://portonvictor.org

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Two stages of debugging Victor Porton <porton@narod.ru> - 2018-09-17 23:31 +0300
  Re: Two stages of debugging David Brown <david.brown@hesbynett.no> - 2018-09-18 09:13 +0200
    Re: Two stages of debugging Julio Di Egidio <julio@diegidio.name> - 2018-09-18 03:39 -0700
  Re: Two stages of debugging Julio Di Egidio <julio@diegidio.name> - 2018-09-18 03:34 -0700
  Re: Two stages of debugging Wouter Verhelst <w@uter.be> - 2018-09-18 12:40 +0200
    Re: Two stages of debugging Julio Di Egidio <julio@diegidio.name> - 2018-09-18 03:46 -0700
      Re: Two stages of debugging Wouter Verhelst <w@uter.be> - 2018-09-18 13:08 +0200
        Re: Two stages of debugging Julio Di Egidio <julio@diegidio.name> - 2018-09-18 04:43 -0700
          Re: Two stages of debugging Wouter Verhelst <w@uter.be> - 2018-09-18 16:00 +0200
            Re: Two stages of debugging Julio Di Egidio <julio@diegidio.name> - 2018-09-18 10:36 -0700
              Re: Two stages of debugging Jacob Sparre Andersen <jacob@jacob-sparre.dk> - 2018-09-19 07:51 +0200
                Re: Two stages of debugging Julio Di Egidio <julio@diegidio.name> - 2018-09-19 03:43 -0700
              On the usefulness of testing coverage (was: Re: Two stages of debugging) Wouter Verhelst <w@uter.be> - 2018-09-19 13:46 +0200
                Re: On the usefulness of testing coverage (was: Re: Two stages of debugging) Julio Di Egidio <julio@diegidio.name> - 2018-09-19 08:20 -0700
            Re: Two stages of debugging Ed Prochak <edprochak@gmail.com> - 2018-09-18 12:02 -0700
              Re: Two stages of debugging Julio Di Egidio <julio@diegidio.name> - 2018-09-19 03:39 -0700
  Re: Two stages of debugging Victor Porton <porton@narod.ru> - 2018-09-20 22:37 +0300
    Re: Two stages of debugging Julio Di Egidio <julio@diegidio.name> - 2018-09-20 12:53 -0700

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