The “Wolf Fence” algorithm for debugging

doi:10.1145/358690.358695

Journal Article10.1145/358690.358695

The “Wolf Fence” algorithm for debugging

Edward J. Gauss

- 01 Nov 1982

- Communications of The ACM

- Vol. 25, Iss: 11, pp 780

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TL;DR: The “Wolf Fence” method of debugging time-sharing programs in higher languages evolved from the “Lions in South Africa’ method”, a quickly converging iteration that serves to catch run-time errors.

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