The Six Stages of Debugging

This is from a paper posted on my cubicle neighbor’s wall:

The Six Stages of Debugging

  1. That can’t happen.
  2. That doesn’t happen on my machine.
  3. That shouldn’t happen.
  4. Why is that happening?
  5. Oh, I see.
  6. How did that ever work?
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2 Responses to “The Six Stages of Debugging”

  1. Tomas Says:

    That is awesome and hilarious at the same time! :)

  2. Roman Says:

    Yep, computers are never wrong. Sometime I hate these words when I debug!

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