A debugging oracle is a decisionmaker during a debugging process. Threemajor decisions during typical debugging sessions are on the identities, the locations, and the repairs of faults. A programmer usually acts as a debugging oracle. Our research objective is to help him in his decision-making process with a debugging oracle assistant. To enhance our understanding of both the debugging oracle ...

Das Debugging ist ein komplexer und arbeitsintensiver Prozess in der Softwareentwicklung. Für das Debugging von Java-Programmen werden bis heute vor allem sogenannte Trace-Debugger verwendet. Diese unterstützen die Fehlersuche, indem sie es ermöglichen, ein untersuchtes Programm schrittweise auszuführen. Im Bereich der Forschung sind viele neue Methoden und Werkzeuge entwickelt worden, die im V...

Debugging is a core skill required by programmers, yet we know little about how to effectively teach the process of debugging. The challenges learning debugging are compounded for novices who lack experience and still tools they need program effectively. In this work, report case study in which used think-aloud protocol gain insight into behaviour three students engaged tasks. Our qualitative a...

Until today the most common technique to debug Java programs is trace debugging. In this work we present two different debugging approaches for Java: declarative debugging, which has its origins in the area of functional and logic programming, and omniscient debugging, which is basically an extension of trace debugging. To benefit from the advantages of both techniques we have integrated them i...

We present Explorative Debugging as a novel debugging paradigm for rule based languages. Explorative Debugging allows truly declarative debugging of rules and is well suited to support rapid, tryand-error development of rules. We also present the Inference Explorer, an open source explorative debugger for horn rules on top of RDF. 1 Debugging Semantic Web Rules Semantic Web rule languages can b...

Although attribute grammars are commonly used for compiler construction, little investigation has been conducted on debugging attribute grammars. The paper proposes two types of systematic debugging methods, an algorithmic debugging and slice-based debugging, both tailored for attribute grammars. By means of query-based interaction with the developer, our debugging methods effectively narrow th...

The debugging technique comes into its own.

Debuggers are crucial tools for developing object-oriented software systems as they give developers direct access to the running systems. Nevertheless, traditional debuggers rely on generic mechanisms to explore and exhibit the execution stack and system state, while developers reason about and formulate domain-specific questions using concepts and abstractions from their application domains. T...

Program debugging is a form of diagnosis that might be referred to as \routine." As such, debugging has similar properties as diagnosis and yet can be solved in a more straightforward manner than many diagnostic problems. Automating the debugging problem is of interest for several reasons. Debugging is a time-consuming process that tends to haunt many programmers from novices to experts. Yet th...