Invest in signal naming and grouping conventions early. Protocol debug wastes time finding signals. VIP monitor integration with waveform viewer (Verdi, SimVision) pays off immediately.
Assertion failure can mark the sampled violation time and property context.
Transaction recording: log the fields and beats needed for correlation, with sampling and storage limits defined.
Post-simulation analysis can rank checker reports and earliest observed anomalies; it cannot automatically identify every root cause.