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Re: The 10 stages of Bug hunting and the sweet smell of success

by Anonymous Monk
on Sep 19, 2003 at 03:52 UTC ( [id://292578]=note: print w/replies, xml ) Need Help??


in reply to The 10 stages of Bug hunting and the sweet smell of success

aka Strip it down to the bare minimum test case

Isn't this step 1 everytime you find an inconsistency?

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Re: Re: The 10 stages of Bug hunting and the sweet smell of success
by castaway (Parson) on Sep 19, 2003 at 07:15 UTC
    In a perfect world, possibly. I doubt seriously that everyone is disciplined enough to do that though.. I agree totally with the 'well I just changed that bit, I think, and it worked before then... ' approach.

    C.

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