to debug
- verb
- /ˌdiːˈbʌɡ/
- Specialized
- First, you can debug HTML/JS using Aptana with Firebug, set breakpoints, inspect variables, and all the rest.
- debug code
- debug the system
- help debug
It's how to program, how to debug things, how to, you know, decompose programs.
- It's how to program, how to debug things, how to, you know, decompose programs.
- It's not pretty, but it has been very, very heavily debugged.
- Well, it's probably very hard to debug things that aren't so.
- Oh, because there's something you probably debug, but I've actually done it and it works.
Examples
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During development, it tends to make things easier to debug if your assets are in separate files.
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Now I can debug my new client's website that was already damaged by other bad SEO.
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In order to check the issue, we will need to debug your website.
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I'll debug the rest when I get back Monday.
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I was trying to debug the voice demo.
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The production lines ground to a halt for hours while technicians tried to debug the software.
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Log analysis can help optimize or debug system performance.
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I will gladly donate time to debug any software, including school lessons.
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So use this when you're debugging your homeworks and projects.
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Using a debugger, I was able to debug the program and eliminate the errors.
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Etymology
The word debug breaks into de- ('remove') and bug ('insect' or 'small problem'), and one popular story says engineers once found a real moth inside an early computer. So to debug a program is to 'remove' those little problems in the code.