Downtime is a company s biggest nightmare, and software problems are frequently to blame. Programmers now have at their fingertips a resource that will keep the bugs at bay and the bosses happy. The Osborne Media Group. Given that 80 percent of a programmer s time is spent debugging, zeroing in on the potential problems before they occur saves valuable time in addition to improving application performance. Programmers working with Java will find this an indispensable guide to one of the hottest programming languages in history that is being used in more and more commercial applications.
Software bugs cost billions of dollars to fix and an untold number of hours in Web downtime.
Debugging Java is a hands-on resource that shows tricks, tips and techniques to prevent errors and reduce the amount of time spent on solutions. It is also a comprehensive guide to writing clean code, magnifying a subject only glanced at in other publications. Author Will David Mitchell, a former computer science instructor, draws on nearly 30 years of experience working with computers. His research shows that people who learn how to debug first are able to master computer languages much faster. While teaching at the University of Nebraska, he discovered that his students performed an average of 9 points higher on a standardized exam than other students, a discrepancy he attributes to the mastery of debugging.