What is the proper name for doing debugging by adding 'print' statements [closed]

Answer 1

I've heard "Gutenberg debugging" being used, in the honor of the guy who invented the printing press.

Answer 2

I usually refer to it as tracing.

Note that in Visual Studio you can set breakpoints which just add tracing. Right click on a breakpoint, select "when hit..." and check the "Print a message" option.

Answer 3

I call this "Hi, Mom" programming.

Answer 4

I call it Tracing.

Answer 5

me and my team mates calling it "Oldschool Debuging".

Answer 6

Seat of your pants debugging :)

When you're on an embedded system, when you're at the bleeding edge and the language you're coding in doesn't have a debugger yet, when your debugger is behaving strangely and you want to restore some sanity, and you want to understand how re-entrancy is working in multi-threaded code,....