Importance of Debugging

Debugging is an important aspect in programming. As the name suggests ‘De-Bug’, it is a technique to check a program for errors. Debugging is the way to find out the bug or the fault occurred in a program that has been written by the software developers.

Debugging is the primary activity to examine the program, once it is being designed by the team of developers. Debugging is a much disciplined process. It emphasizes on three basic terms:-

    1.What the bug or fault is?

    2. Where has it occurred?

   3.  How is it caused?

Debugging is a two way process, the first one is to inspect a program for errors and the next step is even more important than the former one that is to fix those errors. It is because of the reason that if the errors will not be fixed, it may replicate and give rise to many other errors that would ultimately damage the whole program and even the system.

Debugging acts as a backbone process and debuggers are just like the vertebras in the backbone who collectively work to uphold the particular program assigned to them.

Er. Nipun Sharma
STEP Consultancy