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Being new to systematic debugging, I asked myself what these three terms mean:
Anyone could provide definitions?
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debugging --- getting the code to work as you intended; profiling --- assessing how the code carries out a given scientific task on a given platform and how its performance might be improved; validation --- assessing how accurately the code carries out a given scientific task.
Debugging, in computer programming and engineering, is a multistep process that involves identifying a problem, isolating the source of the problem, and then either correcting the problem or determining a way to work around it. The final step of debugging is to test the correction or workaround and make sure it works.
What is Tracing? One technique that monitors software in real-time debugging is known as "tracing," which involves a specialized use of logging to record information about a program's execution. Programmers typically use this information to diagnose common problems with software and applications.
These libraries help you with Python development: the debugger enables you to step through code, analyze stack frames and set breakpoints etc., and the profilers run code and give you a detailed breakdown of execution times, allowing you to identify bottlenecks in your programs.
Well... as I was typing the tags for my question, it appeared that stack overflow already had defined the terms in the tags description. Here their definitions which I found very good:
Remote debugging is the process of running a debug session in a local development environment attached to a remotely deployed application.
Profiling is the process of measuring an application or system by running an analysis tool called a profiler. Profiling tools can focus on many aspects: functions call times and count, memory usage, cpu load, and resource usage.
Tracing is a specialized use of logging to record information about a program's execution.
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