1) bugfixing
2) bugfixing
3) bugfixing

No, seriously, I love finding & fixing bugs.. it never gets old..frustrating at times yes, but it is never boring..

I'd rather take a swim in a moist human massgrave than fix any more bugs of this cancer-inducing "selfmade" CMS developped by a "company" that shall not be named.
Sadly I am not aware of any such pit in the neighborhood, thus more bugfixing it is... yay ⚰️

Bugfixing is like whack-a-mole... For every one you squash, 3 more pop up.

Debugging in real life

Our family is working on the house. We have an integrated floor heating system, which is connected individually for each room. (we have three rooms, only two are connected yet)

Today we changed the main water boiler. At first it seemed like it was working, but then we lost pressure. It dropped fairly fast so we checked every sink, every water outlet.

We just missed the unconnected floor heating pipe, that was connected to the main pipe...

Its a fucking mess down here, so dont complain about you bugs, I have experienced worse!!!

Bugfixing is the art of unfixing bugs while eliminate other bugs

Finished the weekend with 2 really productive debugging and bugfixing evenings and nights. It always is impressing me how productive I am at weekend nights. I literally found all major bugs of an software we developed and I also fixed them. It feels so good and powerfull. Looking forward to customers positive feedback

So when you are fixing bugs you are like exorcist:

you: "tell me by some sign your name!"
bug: (demonic voice babbling)
you: "and the day and hour of your departure!"
you: "The hour of your departure!"
you: "The hour of your departure. CANNOTGETPROPERTYNAMEOFUNDEFINED!"

I have a changed a project that has many many many bugs because of outdated code that kept it from working. In the process, I changed the structure of some feature implementations in order to get the application to work again. Can this be considered refactoring, or is it just a special kind of bugfixing?

Also, can I call something a rewrite even though I'm not actually writing anything, just using a GUI environment to create the same functionality again?

I need this because I'm writing about what I'm doing for my university and I can't find it on google - I guess it's opinion based.