Details

Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Neville-Neil, George V.

Titel

Divide and Conquer: The use and limits of bisection

Ist Teil von

• ACM queue, 2021-06, Vol.19 (3), p.37-39

Ort / Verlag

New York, NY, USA: ACM

Erscheinungsjahr

2021

Link zum Volltext

Quelle

Alma/SFX Local Collection

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• Bisection is of no use if you have a heisenbug that fails only from time to time. These subtle bugs are the hardest to fix and the ones that cause us to think critically about what we are doing. Timing bugs, bugs in distributed systems, and all the difficult problems we face in building increasingly complex software systems can't yet be addressed by simple bisection. It's often the case that it would take longer to write a usable bisection test for a complex problem than it would to analyze the problem whilst at the tip of the tree.