Jalaj P. Jha Technical & Miscellaneous Ramblings

Dry Run

While studying at Saugor, we were taught a term "Dry Run" where you debug and check execution of programs on desk instead of the Computer itself. After moving to Indore, I took to program this way, as I had no system to run on it. And this helped me avoiding getting away from Computers.

Three years later I took to B.E. Civil Engg, and in the second semester we had ForTran in our curriculum. The Subject was subject to Dry Run as the institution had no computers available to cater to 150 students of First year.

I was the only student there who had prior experience on Computers, and with Dry Run I was the only one to churn out programs for the problems in the Text book.

Thanks to Dry Run my four years away from Computers were not dry at all.

The Definition from http://computing-dictionary.thefreedictionary.com/

dry run - To execute a program by hand, writing values of variables and other run-time data on paper, in order to check its operation or to track down a bug. A dry run is an extreme form of desk check and is practical only for fairly simple programs and small amounts of data