The development of multi-agent programs requires debugging tools and techniques to find and resolve possible defects in such programs. This paper focuses on BDI-based multi-agent programs, discusses some existing debugging approaches that are developed for specific BDI-based multi-agent programming languages, and proposes a generic and systematic approach for debugging BDI-based multi-agent pro...

An important obstacle to the wide-spread adoption of modeldriven development approaches in industry is the lack of proper debugging facilities. Software debugging support is provided by a combination of language and Integrated Development Environment (IDE) features which enable the monitoring and altering of a running program’s state. In Domain-Specific Modelling (DSM), debugging activities hav...

Valentina Grigoreanu is a computer scientist with an interest in human-computer interaction, end-user software engineering, and debugging strategies; she is a PhD candidate in Computer Science at Oregon State University and a User Experience Researcher in the Management and Administration Experience team at Microsoft. Margaret Burnett is a computer scientist with an interest in human-computer i...

Incremental software development is the process of building new programs by modifying old ones. This method of programming is extremely common, and takes advantage of existing pieces of software which are known to be correct. To date, most software development tools have addressed only one aspect of incremental software development, namely, source code control. An equally important issue is in ...

Debugging is a tedious and time-consuming task since it is a methodical process of finding causes and reducing the number of errors. During debugging sessions, developers run a software project, traversing method invocations, setting breakpoints, stopping or restarting executions. In these sessions, developers explore some project areas and create knowledge about them. Unfortunately, when these...

Large-scale distributed systems, like MapReduce, are increasingly being used, but debugging such systems is still very difficult. In this paper, we propose D3, a new debugging system that answers diverse debugging queries by processing logs formally and efficiently. D3 specifies queries concisely in a declarative language and executes the queries in a distributed fashion, thereby lowering debug...

This paper reports the results of an exploratory study that investigated expert and novice debugging processes with the aim of contributing to a general theory of programming expertise. The method used was verbal protocol analysis. Data was collected from 16 programmers employed by the same organization. First, an expert-novice classification of subjects was derived from information based on su...

This study reported the research ®ndings on improving programming skills of novice programmers by way of debugging practices. There were two objectives of the debugging training: (1) to uncover and to correct any misconceptions of the programmers; and (2) to improve the debugging abilities of the programmers. To meet these objectives, a model of debugging practices, DebugIt, was presented. The ...

Programmers spend considerable time debugging code. Symbolic debuggers provide some help but the task remains complex and difficult. Other than breakpoints and tracing, these tools provide little high-level help. Programmers must perform many tasks manually that the tools could perform automatically, such as finding which statements in the program affect the value of an output variable for a gi...

Since its first release the system level language SystemC had a significant impact on various areas in VLSI-CAD. One remarkable benefit of SystemC lies in the support of abstraction levels beyond RTL. But being able to implement complex System-on-Chip (SoC) designs in SystemC raises the necessity of new techniques to support debugging, system exploration, and verification. We present an integra...