Fully understand the bug by describing it as simply as I can. Imagine you are trying to report it on github.
Ask myself what I expected to happen, what actually happened, and what assumptions I hold that make me feels entitled to the expected result. I list these assumptions out. ( rubber duck method )
I go through the list of assumptions and order them by what I think are the least likely to be invalid first.
I walk down the list and verify all the assumptions are actually true. Usually, it is here that I find the 'invalid assumption'. ( here is where we actually use the debugging tools )
If all my assumptions hold, then it simply means I don't understand the system deeply enough and I need to go back to step 3.
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