What Readers Are Saying About Debug It!
Paul does an excellent job of explaining the technical, intel l ect ual, and
psychological aspects of all phases of debugging: preventing bugs in
the first place, diagnosing and fixing bugs, and making sure that the
same bugs don’t happen again . Applying any or all of the ideas from
this book will impr ove the overall quality of your software projects.
Sure, the technical issues are well covered but how Paul also explains
the psychological angles is what makes this book exceptional.
Frederic Daoud
Author, Stripes...and Java Web Development Is Fun Again
I w holeheartedly r ecommend this book to software engineers generally
but more specifically to team leads who need to know how to set up
their teams for best practi ce.
Allan McLeod
Founder and CTO, Isaacc Software
Debug It! does a great job of setting the scene for debugging and get-
ting y ou into the right mind-set w hile also talking about the complica-
tions that can arise once the bug is found and squashed. It’s worth a
look for the anecdotes alone, to see the lengths that people go to when
trying to understand truly bizarre defects.
Jon D i cki nson
Author, Grails 1.1 Web Application Development
Debugging has been a folk art for so long that it’s great to have some-
one put all the tried-and-true techniques together. Debug It! is the
perfect book to pull out when you’re disillusioned with the brain-
breaking process of creating good software. With this tool chest of
assertions, logging, refactoring, and other good stuff, you’ll feel like
you’re Sherlock Holmes and solving the case is inevitable.
Craig Riecke
Author, Mastering Dojo: JavaScript and Ajax Tools for Great
Web Experiences
