The one that bites everyone:

The difference between what you see ..... and what you THINK you see!

Dave

-----Original Message-----
From: ProFox [mailto:profox-boun...@leafe.com] On Behalf Of Paul H. Tarver
Sent: 26 September 2017 15:52
To: profox@leafe.com
Subject: RE: [NF]Debugging Pain Survey

Agree with your addition. I think I was more or less thinking of self-inflicted 
bugs initially. 

Paul H. Tarver
Tarver Program Consultants, Inc.
Email: p...@tpcqpc.com 


-----Original Message-----
From: ProfoxTech [mailto:profoxtech-boun...@leafe.com] On Behalf Of Dave Crozier
Sent: Tuesday, September 26, 2017 9:39 AM
To: profoxt...@leafe.com
Subject: RE: [NF]Debugging Pain Survey

+ Bad product (Component Documentation) either not correct or just plain
wrong.
... Currently struggling with C# Office Interop and finding conflicting 
Microsoft documentation.
... now my first port of call is sites such as StackOverflow and not the 
manufacturer...


-----Original Message-----
From: ProFox [mailto:profox-boun...@leafe.com] On Behalf Of Paul H. Tarver
Sent: 26 September 2017 15:25
To: ProFox@leafe.com
Subject: [NF]Debugging Pain Survey

Since this could technically apply to any programming language, I'll tag it as 
[NF], but Foxpro was the inspiration for the question.

 

This past weekend, I was working on a significant refactoring of an existing 
application and I found myself in that never-ending land of try and re-try 
until all of the dumb, crash causing bugs were out of the way and I could get 
on with working on logic issues and other more important thoughts. There are a 
lot of different "bugs" that get in the way of programming success many of 
which I experience on a regular basis. So, I thought it might be fun and 
interesting to try to find out what programmers think their biggest sources of 
bugs are. 

 

Below is my short list of bug sources in no particular order. Rank them in the 
order of the pain they cause you from most to least:

 

Typos

Bad Variable References

Bad Object References

Logic Errors

Unexpected Data Variations

Incorrect Data Types

Local vs Public Variables

Cut n Paste Code

Unexpected User Actions

 

PS: if you can think of more sources of bug pain, please add them as required. 

 

Paul H. Tarver
Tarver Program Consultants, Inc.

Email:  <mailto:p...@tpcqpc.com> p...@tpcqpc.com

 

 



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