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phone-time debugging

When coders debug other programmer's or lame students code over the phone! or trouble shoot a computer problem.

A: What is Mac up-to?
B: He is phone-time debugging Alex.

by bretfort October 11, 2009


Debugging

Screaming at a computer until it works.

The programmer was debugging their code.

by ducksel November 12, 2022


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by TheGeneralGenitalsPranksterian May 11, 2025


Monkey Debugging

When a programmer resorts to making random changes to their code until something works.

Joe spent hours staring at his code, trying to figure out a solution, until he finally gave in to monkey debugging.

by monkeycode July 19, 2023


alert oriented debugging

Debugging JavaScript code using alert statements to determine flow of control and inspect variables.

My browser doesn't have a JavaScript debugger so I have to resort to alert oriented debugging.

by ekolis June 04, 2020


coffee mug debugging

Just like the term Rubber duck debugging, which is in software engineering, a method of debugging code. The name is a reference to a story in the book The Pragmatic Programmer in which a programmer would carry around a rubber duck and debug their code by forcing themselves to explain it, line-by-line, to the duck. Many other terms exist for this technique, often involving different inanimate objects.

The "coffee mug debugging" is the same method of debugging code with which developers force themselves to read and explain their code line-by-line, to the coffee mug. There are developers who calls this planted plot debugging as well. But "coffee mug debugging" seems more convenient at this century since it's easy to find a coffee mug for a developer than a "rubber duck" or "planted plot".

I had done coffee mug debugging for my dart code in flutter and found out a syntax error and fixed it.

by theoryginal February 17, 2020


reverse debugging

Reverse debugging is the process of trying to understand how someone successfully debugged a program you couldn't

- How did this guy manage to make my program work?
- I don't know, let's use reverse debugging to find out.

by SodiumChloride08 November 29, 2024