rubber duck debugging

English

Etymology

From a story in the book The Pragmatic Programmer (1999).

Noun

rubber duck debugging (uncountable)

  1. (programming) The practice in which a programmer attempts to solve a bug by explaining their code to an inanimate object, such as a rubber duck.
    Hypernym: confessional debugging

Synonyms
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