Debugging as a Science, that too, when your Program is Changing
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Debugging as a Science, that too, when your Program is Changing
Program debugging is an extremely time-consuming process, and it takes up a large portion of software development time. In practice, debugging is still very much of an art, with the developer painstakingly going through volumes of execution traces to locate the actual cause of an observable error. In this work, we discuss recent advances in debugging which makes it systematic scientific activit...
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عنوان ژورنال: Electronic Notes in Theoretical Computer Science
سال: 2010
ISSN: 1571-0661
DOI: 10.1016/j.entcs.2010.08.045