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# Untangling Spaghetti: Debugging Non-Terminating Object Programs

**[Software Design: Tidy First?](https://daily.dev/sources/tidyfirst)** · 5 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments

## Summary

To debug non-terminating object programs, successively inline the methods on the stack until you have a self-referencing method. Seeing the problem in a single method helps you identify the source of the problem and identify possible fixes.

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