A student raises his hand, sounding irritated and wronged. The look on this 11-year-old’s face seems almost accusatory; his code is not running and he sounds as if it is the teacher’s fault. During my ...

Originally published in the November 1988 Embedded Systems Programming magazine. Correction is the final step of any debugging exercise. Sometimes bug eradication is straightforward; sometimes a bug ...

You all write code and then toil to makeit work. You build it, and then you fixit. Testing is an afterthought—somethingyou do after you write the code.You spend about half your time in ...

Thinking about using ASIC technology to integrate your system's electronics onto a single chip? Not so fast. Now that electronics are reaching the level of integration that can be termed “systems on a ...

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A colleague showed me a perplexing situation he encountered during a recent debugging session. He had used the Microsoft Visual Studio 2008 debugger to find a problem while the program was executing, ...

Debugging mouse events is especially confusing, because when the debugger stops the code, most of the events go away! What tactics can we use in these situations? When you work on an editor-style ...