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The Book of Debugging: A Systematic Workflow for Finding and Fixing Bugs

The Book of Debugging: A Systematic Workflow for Finding and Fixing Bugs

Paperback

Programming

Publisher Price: $49.99

PREORDER - Expected ship date November 24, 2026

ISBN10: 1718504063
ISBN13: 9781718504066
Publisher: No Starch Press
Published: Nov 24 2026
Pages: 272
Language: English
Debugging is a skill. This is how it works.

Nobody teaches you how to debug. You learn it the hard way, bug by bug, over years of trial and error. Johannes Kuhlmann spent those years shipping video games, where the bugs are brutal and the deadlines don't move, and turned what he learned into a workflow you can follow the next time something breaks: Reproduce, Probe, Examine, Fix.

Each phase of the workflow comes with numbered, battle-tested strategies you can apply in any language and at any level of the stack, from a misbehaving UI to a race condition that only appears in production. Worked examples drawn from real shipped software show each strategy in action, including the failures and dead ends that are part of every honest debugging session. You'll learn how to:

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