How to Fix a Bug

Every week in my Tuesday Lunch & Learn livestream, we choose a useful software development skill, define a challenge related to that skill, and solve the challenge live. This week, we’re fixing a bug.

There’s more to fixing bugs than, well, fixing bugs. In addition to finding and fixing the bug, you also have the opportunity to prevent additional bugs like this one from occurring in the future. How you do that depends on what kind of bug you have. That’s what we look at in this week’s episode.

To follow along, download the code from GitHub and check out the 2020-07-07 tag. To see the final result, check out the 2020-07-07-end tag or view it on GitHub.

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