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PHPHants – 8th January 2020

Posted on 25th October 2019 by herb

Synopsis:

So you’re writing code, having peer reviews and testing it. And it all works fine. Then one day it doesn’t do what you expected. Now what?

Problem Solving:

The top 10 questions to ask when something doesn’t work.
… in 32 easy steps.

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Posted in News | Tagged PHPHants

Presentation

  • Introduction - PHPHants - 8 January 2020
    • Synopsis
    • So what is Problem Solving?
    • So what's debugging?
    • Bug types
    • About Herb Miller
    • About this presentation - part one
    • About this presentation - part two
    • Are these your top 10?
  • Steps
    • Step 1 - The Cast
    • Step 2 - Asker / Askee
    • Step 3 - Stupid Question Asker
    • Step 4 - The domain expert
    • Step 5 - Project Manager
    • Step 6 - The Process
    • Step 7 - Persist
    • Step 8 - Ask questions
    • Step 9 - Expect the unexpected
    • Step 10 - Need to know
    • Step 11 - New code?
    • Step 12 - Has it happened before?
    • Step 13 - What's changed?
    • Step 14 - The right change?
    • Step 15 - The correct version?
    • Step 16 - Requirements vs specs
    • Step 17 - Askee's questions
    • Step 18 - Research
    • Step 19 - Simplify
    • Step 20 - Reproduce
    • Step 21 - SQA: Restate problem
    • Step 22 - Timing?
    • Step 23 - Environment?
    • Step 24 - Authority
    • Step 25 - Expert opinion
    • Step 26 - Evidence
    • Step 27 - Experience
    • Step 28 - Stop and think
    • Step 29 - Problem size
    • Step 30 - Severity & Priority
    • Step 31 - And finally
    • Step 32 - Post Scriptum
  • Problem Solving - Table of Contents

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