ITC205 Professional Programming Practice

Question:

You will be provided with some code which contains several known bugs. The source code and initial bug reports will be made available in the Resources section of the subject's Interact site.

Your task is to replicate, simplify, trace, and eliminate these bugs using best practice debugging techniques. Your debugging effort should take place within a version control system using appropriately sized, commented, and timely commits.

Please note that the focus in this assignment is on the process and techniques applied, not the complexity of the code. It is recognised that the process applied is ‘way over the top’ for the size of problem addressed.

Criteria:

1. Detailed and comprehensive description of the circumstances leading to the expression of the bug
2. Reliable automated test that demonstrates the bug and simplifies the circumstances in which it is expressed is created
3. Detailed and comprehensive log of the sequence of hypotheses and tests used to trace the origin of the bug is presented
4. Insightful and correct resolution of the bug with no side effects or other bugs created.