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title: "What is the meaning of debugging in software development process?"  
description: "What is the meaning of debugging in software development process?"  
author: "Sanjay Goenka"  
published: 2022-04-06  
canonical: https://answers.mindstick.com/qa/96744/what-is-the-meaning-of-debugging-in-software-development-process  
category: "troubleshooting"  
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# What is the meaning of debugging in software development process?

What is the meaning of [debugging](https://www.mindstick.com/blog/393/javascript-debugging) in [software development](https://www.mindstick.com/articles/12347/latest-software-development-trends) [process](https://yourviews.mindstick.com/view/83832/a-brief-about-machine-learning-life-cycle-process)?

## Answers

### Answer by Hitesh Vohra

![What is the meaning of debugging in software development process?](https://answers.mindstick.com/QuestionAnswer/c4acde8c-5953-4450-886d-61dacfe16a0c/images/515163aa-0a8e-436c-8ab2-a420ded955a9.jpeg) **\**

- **Debugging** is the process of repairing a software bug in the context of [**software**](https://answers.mindstick.com/qa/49864/is-it-possible-to-run-software-written-for-mac-os-x-on-windows) engineering. To put it another way, it refers to the process of finding, evaluating, and correcting problems. This activity begins when the software fails to run properly and ends with the problem being resolved and the software being successfully tested. Because problems must be rectified at all levels of debugging, it is regarded a very difficult and time-consuming operation.\
- Identifying the issue and preparing a report
- Assigning the report to the defect's software engineer to ensure that it is real.
- Modeling, documentation, discovering and testing candidate defects, and so on are all used in defect analysis.
- By making the necessary changes to the system, defects can be resolved.
- Corrections are validated.

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