On: Some ways to get better at debugging

[marginalia_nu]

I always see these types of acronyms and check lists and wonder why they exist. Is this something that human beings use?

[vasili111 → marginalia_nu]

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/OODA_loop

[Ancapistani → marginalia_nu]

Completely irrelevant to debugging, but the "OODA loop" concept is one that's applied often in martial arts and close-quarters combat.

[vasili111 → Ancapistani]

- Observe: observe bug.

- Orient: check code that maybe involved, check in environment related variable values.

- Decide: decide what you will change in your code to try to fix bug.

- Act : implement fix.

Repeat all steps until you found fix.

Of course you can use different approach to debugging but this one works quite well too.