| Technique | Already Using | Use Soon | Use Later | No Plans |
| Use cross-disciplinary knowledge | | | | |
| Focus on facts | | | | |
| Pay attention to unusual details | | | | |
| Gather facts before hypothesizing | | | | |
| State the facts to someone else | | | | |
| Start by observing | | | | |
| Don't guess | | | | |
| Exclude alternative explanations | | | | |
| Reason in both directions | | | | |
| Watch for red herrings | | | | |
| Use alibis as clues | | | | |
| Eliminate impossible causes | | | | |
| Exercise curiosity | | | | |
| Reason based on facts | | | | |
| Enumerate possibilities | | | | |
| Use the power of logic | | | | |
| Use a system for organizing facts | | | | |
| Exercise caution when searching | | | | |
| Use gestalt understanding | | | | |
| Show how something could be done | | | | |
| Don't look for it | | | | |
| It isn't lost you are | | | | |
| Remember the three c's | | | | |
| It's where it's supposed to be | | | | |
| Look for domestic drift | | | | |
| You're looking right at it | | | | |
| The camouflage effect | | | | |
| Think back | | | | |
| Look once, look well | | | | |
| The eureka zone | | | | |
| Tail thyself | | | | |
| It wasn't you | | | | |
| Use a binary search strategy | | | | |
| Use a greedy search strategy | | | | |
| Use a breadth-first search strategy | | | | |
| Use a depth-first search strategy | | | | |
| Use a program slice strategy | | | | |
| Use a deductive-analysis strategy | | | | |
| Use a inductive-analysis strategy | | | | |
| Stabilize the program | | | | |
| Create a test case | | | | |
| Reduce the required input | | | | |
| Categorize the problem | | | | |
| Describe the problem | | | | |
| Explain the problem to someone else | | | | |
| Recall a similar problem | | | | |
| Draw a diagram | | | | |
| Choose a hypothesis from historical data | | | | |
| Read the code | | | | |
| Write unit tests | | | | |
| Display variable values | | | | |
| Display execution messages | | | | |
| Display procedure arguments | | | | |
| Generate a flow trace | | | | |
| Generate a variable snapshot | | | | |
| Generate a memory dump | | | | |
| Force a variable value | | | | |
| Assert assumptions | | | | |
| Check data structures | | | | |
| Display data structures | | | | |
| Use runtime subscript checking | | | | |
| Use runtime stack checking | | | | |
| Use runtime heap checking | | | | |
| Initialize global variables | | | | |
| Initialize local variables | | | | |
| Change storage class | | | | |
| Use a different compiler | | | | |
| Compile to an intermediate level | | | | |
| Execute on a different platform | | | | |
