Debugging with the Scientific Method

Track: Tools and Techniques
Abstract

People see debugging as an occult art, when often it is the easiest part of software development. Debugging is a perfect closed world in which to apply the scientific method.

Stuart Halloway

@stuarthalloway is a founder and President of Cognitect (formerly Relevance). He is a Clojure committer, and a developer of the Datomic database.

Stuart has spoken at a variety of industry events, including StrangeLoop, Clojure/conj, EuroClojure, ClojureWest, SpeakerConf, QCon, GOTO, OSCON, RailsConf, RubyConf, JavaOne, and NFJS.

Stuart has written a number of books and technical articles. Of these, he is most proud of Programming Clojure.