desk check

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desk check - Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (26 May 2007) :

  desk check
  
     <programming> To grovel over hardcopy of source code,
     mentally simulating the control flow; a method of catching
     bugs.  No longer common practice in this age of on-screen
     editing, fast compiles, and sophisticated debuggers - though
     some maintain stoutly that it ought to be.
  
     Compare dry run, eyeball search, vdiff, vgrep.
  
     [Jargon File]
  
     (1996-05-13)