What’s in a name? that which we call a rose
By any other name would smell as sweet
–Shakespeare

Names aren’t that important, but consistency is. I had a discussion with my colleague Onur Taviloglu about the terminology used in my post Debugging: a detailed look at failures.  He pointed to me the terminology used by Algirdas Avižienis, which somewhat contradicted with the terminology of my post. So, I got in touch with my university professor Oguz Tosun, and dug through some resources:

Continue reading Fault, failure and co. →

The bug map provides a simple 2D visualization of the bug’s causality chain, thereby exposing the root cause. But this is only after having the bug map fully visible, and the fog cleared. As promised, I’d like to share the best practices I learned from books, articles and most importantly colleagues on how to clear the fog. Continue reading Clearing the fog →