1 Feb
2004
1 Feb
'04
7:35 p.m.
In message 191D3ECD-533A-11D8-B051-0050E4BA750F@fjrhome.net, "Frank D. Engel, Jr." fde101@fjrhome.net writes
This may be difficult; the program in which I am experiencing the behavior is quite large, and I am trying to write something more manageable, but the bug is not readily reproduced in the smaller program.
I have experienced this problem of finding an apparent bug in a large piece of source code but being unable to write a test program to demonstrate it. My approach was to take the actual application and successively carve chunks out of it, checking whether the bug was still present. It took about half a day to do but did eventually end up with a small test program that enabled Frank to fix a bug.
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