<story><title>Extreme debugging - a tale of microcode and an oven</title><url>http://alanwinfield.blogspot.com.br/2013/03/extreme-debugging-tale-of-microcode-and.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>xradionut</author><text>I&apos;ve worked at a couple of jobs (telecom, semiconductors) with environment chambers and equipment of that ilk. Heat guns were a common bench testing tool.&lt;p&gt;Fast forward ten years and I&apos;m doing contract work for a local company. Of course the contractor got the shittiest workstation, which dies every afternoon like clockwork. So I move the POS white box away from the window and out of the sunlight. &quot;Magically&quot; it only crashes once week. So I send a ticket into the queue, stating the obvious, then the IT folks quibbled and finally admit the motherboard needs to be replaced.</text></comment>
<story><title>Extreme debugging - a tale of microcode and an oven</title><url>http://alanwinfield.blogspot.com.br/2013/03/extreme-debugging-tale-of-microcode-and.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>konstruktor</author><text>Beautiful example of great engineering. I like how they, at least from how the story is told, they first formed a hypothesis based on their knowledge, found a systematic way to test/particularise it and then built a fix for production in a separate step.</text></comment>