The Debugging Book • Andreas Zeller & Clare Sudbery

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This interview was recorded for the GOTO Book Club. Read the full transcription of the interview here: https://gotopia.tech/episodes/387 Prof. Andreas Zeller - Faculty at CISPA Helmholtz Center for Information Security & Author of "The Debugging Book" Clare Sudbery - Independent Technical Coach RESOURCES Andreas https://bsky.app/profile/andreaszeller.bsky.social (https://mastodon.social/@AndreasZeller) https://www.linkedin.com/in/andreaszeller https://andreas-zeller.info Clare https://bsky.app/profile/claresudbery.bsky.social (https://linkedin.com/in/clare-sudbery-she-her-35939540) https://www.madetech.com/podcast https://insimpleterms.blog Links https://www.debuggingbook.org https://github.com/uds-se/debuggingbook https://www.st.cs.uni-saarland.de/dd DESCRIPTION Programming education has a critical blind spot: while we extensively teach code creation, we barely scratch the surface of testing and give almost no attention to debugging—despite debugging consuming half of all software development time. In this conversation with Clare Sudbery, Prof. Andreas Zeller argues that systematic debugging skills and modern automated debugging tools are the "ugly stepchild" of programming that nobody wants to discuss, yet debugging represents the biggest business risk and time sink in software development. RECOMMENDED BOOKS Andreas Zeller • The Debugging Book • https://www.debuggingbook.org Sy Brand • Building a Debugger • https://amzn.to/4cWWr84 Nora Sandler • Writing a C Compil

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