Buy new:

£18.66

Save: £9.33 (33%)

£3.97 delivery Thursday, 22 June. Details

Or fastest delivery Wednesday, 21 June. Details

Only 3 left in stock

[{"displayPrice":"£18.66","priceAmount":18.66,"currencySymbol":"£","integerValue":"18","decimalSeparator":".","fractionalValue":"66","symbolPosition":"left","hasSpace":false,"showFractionalPartIfEmpty":true,"offerListingId":"WYcIJIvxcsspTVezvqygI2jQ0h%2FIqJ30GcFqLrnSuer81N9%2B%2BMq6bgZE1rU5usTeoBzcPbuF9wHSoPnU%2F5h4gWE%2FrTIW3KPG5JEijc3n5v70YZPyOf1N4WBtg3t6ZTPY","locale":"en-GB","buyingOptionType":"NEW","aapiBuyingOptionIndex":0}]

££18.66 () Includes selected options. Includes initial monthly payment and selected options. Details

Payment

Secure transaction

Dispatches from

Amazon

Sold by

Amazon

Returns

Returnable within 30 days of receipt

Details

Payment

Secure transaction

We work hard to protect your security and privacy. Our payment security system encrypts your information during transmission. We don’t share your credit card details with third-party sellers, and we don’t sell your information to others. Learn more

Dispatches from

Amazon

Sold by

Amazon

Returns

Returnable within 30 days of receipt

Item can be returned in its original condition for a full refund or replacement within 30 days of receipt

Read full return policy

Add gift options

Add to List

Added to

Unable to add item to List. Please try again.

Have one to sell?

Sell on Amazon

Flip to back Flip to front

Listen Playing... Paused You're listening to a sample of the Audible audio edition.
Learn more

See this image

Follow the author

Paul Butcher

Debug It!: Find, Repair, and Prevent Bugs in Your Code (Pragmatic Programmers) Paperback – Illustrated, 20 Nov. 2009

by Paul Butcher (Author)

3.9 24 ratings

See all formats and editions

Amazon Price

New from

Used from

Paperback, Illustrated

"Please retry"

£18.66

£8.19

Paperback
£18.66

Other options from £8.19

5 Used from £8.19

9 New from £18.66

Purchase options and add-ons

Some developers thrash around aimlessly looking for a bug without concrete results. Others have the knack of unerringly zeroing in on the root cause of a bug. Are they geniuses? Just lucky? No, they've learned the secrets of professional debugging. This book will equip you with the tools, techniques and approaches-proven in the crucible of professional software development-to ensure that you can tackle any bug with confidence.

You'll learn how to handle every stage of the bug life-cycle, from constructing software that makes debugging easy, through detection, reproduction, diagnosis and rolling out your eventual fix.

If you develop software, sooner or later you're going to discover that it doesn't always behave as you intended. Working out why it's misbehaving can be hard. Sometimes very hard. Debug It! is here to help!

All bugs are different: there is no silver bullet. You've got to rely upon your intellect, intuition, detective skills and yes, even a little luck. But that doesn't mean that you're completely on your own-there is much you can learn from those who have gone before. This book distills decades of hard-won experience gained in the trenches of professional software development, giving you a head-start and arming you with the tools you need to get to the bottom of the problem, whatever you're faced with.

Whether you're writing Java or assembly language, targeting servers or embedded micro-controllers, using agile or traditional approaches, the same basic bug-fixing principles apply. From constructing software that is easy to debug (and incidentally less likely to contain bugs in the first place), through handling bug reports to rolling out your ultimate fix, we'll cover the entire life-cycle of a bug.

You'll learn about the empirical approach, which leverages your software's unique ability to show you what's really happening, the importance of finding a reliable and convenient means of reproducing a bug, and common pitfalls so you can avoid them. You'll see how to use commonly available tools to automatically detect problems before they're reported by customers and how to construct "transparent software" that provides access to critical information and internal state.

ISBN-10

193435628X
ISBN-13

978-1934356289
Edition

1st
Publisher

O′Reilly
Publication date

20 Nov. 2009
Language

English
Dimensions

19.05 x 1.75 x 22.86 cm
Print length

275 pages
See all details

Product description

About the Author

Paul Butcher started out writing games for 8-bit home computers before he was a teenager, and since then has worked in diverse fields at all levels of abstraction, from microcode on bit-slice processors to high-level declarative programming and all points in between. He's been using agile approaches for the last several years, although had adopted many of the same techniques before the agile movement gave them a name. Paul's depth of experience derives from a history of working for startups in which he's had the privilege of working with several great teams on cutting edge technology.

In an attempt to demonstrate that he's at least as fast as Lewis Hamilton, Paul totaled his race-car last year. So no more playing with expensive toys for the time being-but he will be back on track soon!

Product details

Publisher ‏ : ‎ O′Reilly; 1st edition (20 Nov. 2009)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Paperback ‏ : ‎ 275 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 193435628X
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1934356289
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 19.05 x 1.75 x 22.86 cm

Best Sellers Rank: 1,268,278 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
- 1,401 in Programming Languages & Tools
- 1,787 in Functional Programming
- 1,800 in Software Architecture

Customer reviews:
3.9 24 ratings

About the author

Follow authors to get new release updates, plus improved recommendations.

Paul Butcher

Brief content visible, double tap to read full content.

Full content visible, double tap to read brief content.

Paul Butcher started out writing games for 8-bit home computers before he was a teenager, and since then has worked in diverse fields at all levels of abstraction, from microcode on bit-slice processors to high-level declarative programming and all points in between. Paul's depth of experience derives from a history of working for startups in which he's had the privilege of working with several great teams on cutting edge technology.

Customer reviews

3.9 out of 5

24 global ratings

5 star		49%
4 star		20%
3 star		9%
2 star		10%
1 star		11%

How customer reviews and ratings work

Top reviews from United Kingdom

There was a problem filtering reviews right now. Please try again later.

Chris Cummins

Achieves its goals and doesn't surprise

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 8 October 2012

Verified Purchase

A review of this book pretty much writes itself. Its a book about debugging. If you read the blurb and decide that its something you would be interested in reading about - then you will be satisfied. If you read the blurb and decide that it isn't your cup of tea or that you already know enough about the subject, then don't buy it and save yourself some pennies. Reading this book will not give you any surprises or life changing epiphanies, but it will make your debugging technique noticeably more solid.

There is very little else to be said - its concise (a very quick read, I breezed through it over a weekend), well written, thoughtful and educational. It formalises many common sense practises and you will probably take something new away from it. If you think that sounds like a good use of your time, then buy it.

One person found this helpful

Helpful

Yossu

Excellent, required reading for ANY programmer

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 24 May 2012

Verified Purchase

I have read a lot of computer books in my time, and I can honestly say this was one of the best and most useful I have ever read.

The book is very well written, and clearly explained. It takes you through the various stages of identifying, tracking down, isolating, and fixing a bug, as well as the crucial stage (that most of us miss) of how to learn from the bug and prevent it, or similar bugs happening again.

Even after 30+ years of writing software, I found a lot to learn here. Even the bits that I already knew were worth reading as it gave a fresh and clear perspective on the subject.

Perhaps almost as important as the bug fixing section was the section on how to write software that prevents bugs, or at least catches them early in the development cycle. Some of the ideas here were obvious, some weren't, but they all added up to a methodology for making the software tell YOU where the bugs are.

Absolutely well recommended. Should be compulsory reading for anyone in the software business, whether an independent developer, or a member of a large team.

3 people found this helpful

Helpful

the_321_elmimo_123_456

I love this book

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 29 October 2017

Verified Purchase

I love this book. It improved my performance at work because it made me more aware of why I was doing things. I also now write better commit messages :D

One person found this helpful

Helpful

Terry Brandon

Two Stars

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 28 October 2014

Verified Purchase

Probably good for what it is; but the title is misleading. Terry

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 22 December 2014

Verified Purchase

One of the best books ive found on debugging pratices

One person found this helpful

Helpful

Happy Buyer

Four Stars

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 4 August 2015

Would be nice to have a Kindle Copy of the book

Helpful

Jeremy Clark

Thorough and well-written

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 28 February 2010

This book contains a lot of very helpful advice, both on the practical use of tools and the mindset necessary to debug code. In the process, it covers a range of software engineering best practices, such as test driven development, automated builds and software configuration management. Highly recommended.

2 people found this helpful

Helpful

Neil C. Eccles

Debug it - an essential guide to the dark art of debugging

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 22 January 2010

Debug it- is not just your typical book of algorithms and excerpts of programming guides and reference material, it gives essential insights into the mental processes that need to be captured and employed when tracking down problems in complex software.
The author does this by setting out simple strategies and mindsets that when applied will lead you to not only find the bug, but shows you the correct way to fix, test and make sure it never happens again.
Preliminary chapters focus on preventive techniques and good software engineering methodology to prevent bugs happening again.
Later chapters cover specific methods and examples

In summary this book is ideal for all levels of coders as well as those responsible for the management of quality assured software.

One person found this helpful

Helpful

Amazon Music Stream millions of songs	AbeBooks Books, art & collectables	ACX Audiobook Publishing Made Easy	Amazon Web Services Scalable Cloud Computing Services

Audible Download Audiobooks	Book Depository Books With Free Delivery Worldwide	DPReview Digital Photography	Goodreads Book reviews & recommendations

Amazon Home Services Experienced pros Happiness Guarantee	IMDb Movies, TV & Celebrities	Kindle Direct Publishing Indie Digital & Print Publishing Made Easy	Shopbop Designer Fashion Brands

Amazon Warehouse Deep Discounts Open-Box Products	Amazon Business Service for business customers	Whole Foods Market We Believe in Real Food

Select Your Cookie Preferences

Buy new: £18.66

Sorry, there was a problem.

Sorry, there was a problem.

Follow the author

Debug It!: Find, Repair, and Prevent Bugs in Your Code (Pragmatic Programmers) Paperback – Illustrated, 20 Nov. 2009

Purchase options and add-ons

Product description

About the Author

Product details

About the author

Paul Butcher

Customer reviews

Top reviews from United Kingdom

There was a problem filtering reviews right now. Please try again later.

Buy new:

£18.66