When I first received a copy of Martin Brown's Debugging Perl: Troubleshooting for Programmers from Linux Journal HQ, my initial reaction was: how could anybody possibly write an entire book on ...

But even today, some designs don't require top-down methodology or bottom-up verification. Examples include simple analog designs or designs with no feedback between the analog and digital sections.

According to recent surveys, most programmers place debugging at the top of their list. So what has changed in the last twenty years? Virtutech ran a survey at Embedded Systems Conference West 2005 to ...

Programmers spend a high percentage of the time debugging rather than writing code. You probably had some training in learning a language or framework–but how did you learn to fix the defects in your ...