Abstract
In order to fix a bug in a program, you have to “understand the problem.” This is another way of saying that you need to understand
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The program’s requirements
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How the program implements those requirements
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Blunden, B. (2012). Understand the Problem. In: Software Exorcism: A Handbook for Debugging and Optimizing Legacy Code. Apress, Berkeley, CA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4302-5108-8_3
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