A troubleshooter could check each component in a system one by one, substituting known good components for each potentially suspect one.
Falcon is characterized as a freelance adventurer and troubleshooter - a man who makes his living keeping his mouth shut and engaging in dangerous enterprises.
A potpourri of development methodologies and software development tools were promulgated, often championed by independent consultants brought in as troubleshooters on critical projects.
From there the troubleshooter forms hypotheses on potential causes, and devises (or perhaps references a standardized checklist of) tests to eliminate these prospective causes.
It aids troubleshooting by providing the troubleshooter with a mental model of how the system is supposed to work.
Sales records can be generated and remote access to computer reports can be given to corporate offices, managers, troubleshooters, and other authorized personnel.
The protagonists are the agents of multinational corporations - engineers engaged in large scale projects and troubleshooters engaged in protecting said engineers.
Even in simple systems the troubleshooter must always consider the possibility that there is more than one fault.