Re: Test rigs, dev machines and psychic debugging

"Scout" <Toothpaste@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Do you work this way? Would/could you work this way?

Yeah, that's my thing too. My favorite debugging tool used to be walks on
the beach when I lived in Savannah, GA. One particularly tough problem to
track down was a NaN that was getting from a data acquisition system through
the data stream to a PC that was displaying the data in real-time, and
crashing the display system. I'd take a walk on the beach after work every
day, and that would pump some blood through the debugging system, and I'd
come up with a cause and solution. Then test it the next morning, nope
wasn't it, try a few more things and go to the beach to think about it all.
After about 4 iterations, we solved the problem and moved on to the next
thing. Absolutely my favorite way to solve problems, and one of the most
effective, too.

Now that I don't have such a nice place to walk, I use SmartInspect and it
is very helpful, but like most tools, it's a _part_ of the solution, and the
brain is the catalyst that makes the process work.

Cheers,
Van


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