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[jbovlaste] Re: defining "debug"



On 12/17/10 14:28, .alyn.post. wrote:
> Is there a hint between these two at a more fundamental definition?
>
> If we have a reading fault finder and a computer program fault finder,
> what is a fault finder?

I think there's a worthy distinction between fault *finding*, fault
*diagnosis*, and fault *fixing*; "debug" in computer circles tends to
refer to the latter two, and either users or QA/testers get the first
job :-)

And all of these things can be specialised to computers with a bit of
{sampla}.

ABS

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