Back in the day, we'd write some code, compile, execute, see what happened and repeat. That was testing. (Sometimes that's still what testing looks like, for better or worse.) Today, we can do a lot ...

In “CODE: Debugging the Gender Gap,” a documentary that played this weekend at the AFI Fest, director Robin Hauser Reynolds explored why women are underrepresented in the technology field today — and ...

If you have ever tried to debug optimized code, you probably realized that it can be a frustrating experience. Without optimizations, your debugger is a reliable assistant, precisely following every ...

Make it a habit to dig deeper and find more information about the issue before starting to debug a non-trivial issue. For example: is this a new problem? If so, starting when? Is this only visible to ...

The tech world is bullshit. Yes, we need it and use it every day. But the way women are treated within this industry is simply not ok. Over the weekend, Susan Fowler Rigetti’s blog blew up, exposing ...

AI coding platforms are becoming crucial infrastructure, but governance, verification and trust are now major challenges.

Modern multithreaded, asynchronous code can be hard to debug. The complexity that comes with message passing and thread management results in bugs that can seem non-determinant, with little or no way ...

With the June 2021 release of VS Code, Microsoft also unveiled plans for improving the editor’s Java support in coming months. Microsoft has released version 1.58 of Visual Studio Code, also known as ...

Programming is a constant game of mental Jenga: one line of code stacked upon another, building a tower of code you hope is robust enough not to come crashing down. But it always does, as code never ...

Back in the day, we'd write some code, compile, execute, see what happened and repeat. That was testing. (Sometimes that's still what testing looks like, for better or worse.) Today, we can do a lot ...