Debugging Workflow

Bugs are found by narrowing the search space, not by guessing. Every technique here reduces possibilities.

When to Activate

• A bug is not immediately obvious after reading the code
• An intermittent failure (flaky test, race condition)
• A performance regression (something got slower)
• A memory leak or out-of-memory crash
• A "works on my machine" environment mismatch
• Production incident requiring root cause analysis

Universal Debugging Process