Purposefully debugging without using a debugger?

Question

In chapter 5 of \"The Practice of Programming\" Brian Kernighan and Rob Pike write:

As a personal choice, we tend not to use debuggers beyond getting a st

Answer 1

I absolutely use my debugger. When a test I wrote is failing, I often step through the lines, checking my expectations against the actual values shown in the code.

That being said, after years of programming experience, you then to NEED the debugger less and less as you are more able to just "know" why the problem manifested.

Two thing that really make the debugger userfil are: conditional breakpoints and the object inspector. They are by far the most useful debugger features for me.