Debugging by Thinking: A Multidisciplinary Approach (HP Technologies)

Heaps

checking, 245–46

construction, 64

representation, 64, 79

sorts, 63–64

Heuristics

debugging, 185, 201–19

per Schoenfeld, 183–84

Historical data, hypotheses from, 216–17

Holmes, Sherlock, 17–31

alternative explanations exclusion, 28–29

applying, to debugging, 19

attention to unusual details, 21–23

author behind, 18

cross-disciplinary knowledge, 19–20

don’t guess, 27

fact gathering before hypothesizing, 23–25

facts to someone else, 25

focus on facts, 20–21

impossible cause elimination, 28

life of, 17

literature about, 17–18

methods of, 18–31

observation, 25–27

reasoning in both directions, 29–30

red herrings, 30–31

Homogeneous aggregate, 207

How to Read and Do Proofs, 181–82

Human cognition models, 388–89

Human error, 389–94

classifying, 390–94

defining, 389–90

knowledge-based behavior, 393–94

rule-based behavior, 391–92

skill-based behavior, 391

See also Way of the psychologist

Hypotheses

choosing, from historical data, 216–17

completion, 210

correctness, 290

diagram, 216

efficiency, 211

evaluation, 186–87

fact gathering before, 23–25

formulating, 29

generation and evaluation, 186–87

guessing vs., 27

persistence, 408–9

problems and observations, 24–25

robustness, 211

similarity, 215