Salesforce Marketing Cloud Software Developer Mock Interview

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Question 14 of 19

As a software developer, explain the meaning of debugging, and why it's used?

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In the software debugging world, the process starts as soon as code is written and continues in successive stages of the development process, and is then combined with other units of programming to form a software product. Since debugging is a multistep process that involves identifying a problem, isolating the source of the problem, and then correcting the problem. Please remember this since a technical manager that knows development and debugging well will quiz you on multiple facets of this area. It's really important to note that hiring managers will want to find out how good the quality of your code is. The reason is they will know how much time you will be spending on the debugging process. If you maintain a high quality level of code, you'll be doing less debugging, if your code is average or not great, you'll be spending a lot more time debugging which managers might see as a weakness. Please be aware of this.