Systematic Debugging - Root Cause Analysis Framework

When to use this skill

• Encountering bugs or unexpected application behavior
• Investigating test failures and flaky tests
• Diagnosing production issues and outages
• Tracing error sources through complex call stacks
• Analyzing logs, stack traces, and error messages
• Reproducing intermittent or hard-to-replicate bugs
• Debugging race conditions and timing issues
• Investigating memory leaks or performance degradation
• Root cause analysis before proposing fixes
• Debugging integration issues between services
• Investigating data corruption or inconsistencies
• Applying scientific method to systematic problem-solving

When to use this skill