AI Debugging and Test-Driven fixes
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AI Debugging and Test-Driven fixes
This course is part of AI Tooling Specialization
Instructor: Alfredo Deza
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What you'll learn
Apply AI-assisted debugging with systematic verification, understanding both AI tool strengths and hallucination risks when generating code fixes
Use test-driven debugging to isolate bugs, define defects precisely through failing test cases, and verify fixes prevent regressions
Gather debugging context through structured logging, code architecture analysis, and documentation to guide AI tools toward accurate diagnosis
Skills you'll gain
- Debugging
- Context Engineering
- Large Language Modeling
- Engineering Documentation
- Test Driven Development (TDD)
- Software Testing
- Cloud Computing Architecture
- Test Script Development
- Responsible AI
- AI literacy
- Unit Testing
- AI Integrations
- Software Documentation
- Software Architecture
- Verification And Validation
- Test Automation
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April 2026
3 assignments
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There are 3 modules in this course
Learn to debug software systematically using AI tools combined with test-driven development strategies. You will explore why AI debugging is useful for pattern recognition across large codebases, and understand the challenges with AI output including hallucination risks and the importance of verifying AI-generated suggestions against actual code behavior. The course covers project architecture analysis as a prerequisite for effective debugging, using documentation to provide AI tools with project-specific context that narrows suggestions and reduces hallucination. You will apply test-driven debugging where tests isolate buggy components, define bugs precisely through failing test cases, and verify fixes without regressions. The test-first approach demonstrates how writing a failing test before fixing a bug ensures the fix addresses the actual problem. The advanced module covers context gathering techniques that provide AI tools with logs, traces, and code history for accurate diagnosis, structured logging designed for both human and AI consumption, and finding debugging direction through contextual analysis rather than undirected AI queries. You will explore proactive bug hunting using AI to discover unknown defects by analyzing source code for potential issues ranked by severity. The course concludes with a complete framework integrating testing, context gathering, logging, and AI analysis into a unified debugging workflow. By completing this course, you will be able to combine test-driven development with AI-assisted debugging to find, reproduce, and fix bugs systematically.
Covers debugging, AI, overview, useful, and patterns.
What's included
15 videos6 readings1 assignment
15 videosβ’Total 47 minutes
- Course Introductionβ’0 minutes
- Why AI Debugging Is Usefulβ’5 minutes
- Challenges with AI Outputβ’4 minutes
- Exploring the Projectβ’4 minutes
- Conclusionβ’1 minute
- Overview of Issues to Fixβ’1 minute
- Architecture of the Projectβ’4 minutes
- Documentation for Debuggingβ’5 minutes
- Conclusionβ’1 minute
- Introductionβ’1 minute
- The Importance of Testingβ’4 minutes
- Easier Debugging with Testsβ’6 minutes
- Simple Fixing with Testingβ’6 minutes
- Defining a Bug with a Testβ’6 minutes
- Conclusionβ’1 minute
6 readingsβ’Total 60 minutes
- Key Termsβ’10 minutes
- Reflectionβ’10 minutes
- Key Termsβ’10 minutes
- Reflectionβ’10 minutes
- Key Termsβ’10 minutes
- Reflectionβ’10 minutes
1 assignmentβ’Total 10 minutes
- Getting started with Debuggingβ’10 minutes
What's included
8 videos4 readings1 assignment
8 videosβ’Total 24 minutes
- Introductionβ’1 minute
- Gathering Context for Debuggingβ’6 minutes
- Finding Direction with Contextβ’6 minutes
- Helping AI with Loggingβ’3 minutes
- Conclusionβ’1 minute
- Introductionβ’1 minute
- Exploring Potential Unknown Bugsβ’3 minutes
- Overview of Debugging and Testing with AIβ’3 minutes
4 readingsβ’Total 40 minutes
- Key Termsβ’10 minutes
- Reflectionβ’10 minutes
- Key Termsβ’10 minutes
- Reflectionβ’10 minutes
1 assignmentβ’Total 10 minutes
- Advanced Debuggingβ’10 minutes
What's included
1 video1 reading1 assignment
1 videoβ’Total 2 minutes
- Course Conclusionβ’2 minutes
1 readingβ’Total 10 minutes
- Next stepsβ’10 minutes
1 assignmentβ’Total 10 minutes
- AI Debuggingβ’10 minutes
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No prior AI tool experience is required. The course introduces AI-assisted debugging from fundamentals, demonstrating how to use AI for bug identification, code analysis, and fix suggestions while understanding the limitations and verification steps required.
The course uses Python projects with pytest for demonstrations, but the debugging strategies and AI integration patterns apply to any programming language. The focus is on the methodology of combining testing with AI debugging rather than language-specific syntax.
AI debugging excels at pattern recognition across large codebases, analyzing 1500+ lines of output to identify potential issues ranked by severity. The course teaches how to provide AI tools with structured context through documentation and logging, then verify suggestions through tests rather than trusting AI output blindly.
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