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== Questions == | == Questions == | ||
==general debugging hints== | ==general debugging hints== | ||
| - | * adding asserts to your code can help you to ensure that values are | + | * adding asserts to your code can help you to ensure that values are what you expect them to be at all times |
| - | what you expect them to be at all times | + | |
* write your code modularly: use submethods for any non-trivial repeated or similar code. | * write your code modularly: use submethods for any non-trivial repeated or similar code. | ||
* write unit tests for each of the submethods written | * write unit tests for each of the submethods written | ||
| - | * separate complicated computations into smaller pieces which can | + | * separate complicated computations into smaller pieces which can then be asserted on. |
| - | then be asserted on. | + | |
* try to find out where the time is going, are some methods being called more often than you expect them to? do they take longer to execute than expected? | * try to find out where the time is going, are some methods being called more often than you expect them to? do they take longer to execute than expected? | ||
Revision as of 20:39, 4 October 2008
Questions
general debugging hints
- adding asserts to your code can help you to ensure that values are what you expect them to be at all times
- write your code modularly: use submethods for any non-trivial repeated or similar code.
- write unit tests for each of the submethods written
- separate complicated computations into smaller pieces which can then be asserted on.
- try to find out where the time is going, are some methods being called more often than you expect them to? do they take longer to execute than expected?
