Debug-Thinking¶
Turn "it's broken" into a falsifiable hypothesis, a reproducible trigger, and a fix you can prove closed the gap between expected and actual behavior.
| Guide | Answers |
|---|---|
| Problem | What problem does this solve, and how does the reproduce-hypothesize-test-verify loop actually work? |
| Mistake | What goes wrong when applying it, and how do I catch it? |
| Best Practise | How do I get fluent at this, for real? |
Related¶
- Critical Thinking — separating claims from evidence and catching cognitive biases, which debugging leans on constantly.
- Systems Thinking — for failures that no single component caused, where the bug lives in the interaction between correctly-behaving parts.