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Ceteris Paribus means “with other things [being] the same” (Latin) and when applied to software troubleshooting and debugging means equal environment and configuration. My favorite example is troubleshooting an issue using two Citrix CDF traces (ETW based): one is for the problem and another for the expected behavior. Say we have a terminal services connectivity problem where a published application doesn’t start on the one particular server in Citrix farm. Here Ceteris Paribus means that the application, connection method, configuration, user name, and so on, are all the same for both traces. 

Looks like I have used Latin to obfuscate something obvious but surely many engineers forget it when facing complex issues. This equally applies to debugging as well. 

- Dmitry Vostokov @ DumpAnalysis.org -

           

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