Subj : Re: Not debugging?
To   : comp.programming,comp.lang.java.programmer,comp.lang.lisp
From : Phlip
Date : Thu Aug 25 2005 02:25 am

Greg Menke wrote:

> Its quite hard and maybe impossible to write unit tests for some (new)
> things; OS bootloaders, device drivers, interrupt handlers, etc.  In
> some circumstances, a debugger can be used.  Otherwise you have to do it
> the old fashioned way; diagnostic counters, printks, bus analyzers,
> sometimes even logic analyzers.
>
> Unit tests are great, but they also have their limits.

Don't use the debugger to delay the inevitable: Writing an emulator for your 
CPU.

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