I&#x27;m saying that when asked for a debugging estimate, you should commit to spending no more than an hour (or other amount, depending on the problem) before stopping to report on your progress. How you spend that hour depends on the circumstances; if you could predict that then you probably already know enough to give a somewhat accurate estimate.<p>When you stop to report on your progress, you don&#x27;t need to deliver detailed notes. It could be as simple as &quot;yeah, fixed it&quot; or &quot;figured out the problem, I need three hours to refactor the code to resolve it&quot; or &quot;based on what I&#x27;m seeing, Bob would be better at fixing this; I can spend a few minutes to show him how to reproduce it.&quot;<p>&quot;try things at random&quot; is not debugging, so you&#x27;re right about the process.