Debugging and testing is a larger part of the effort spent in a software development cycle. Debugging a program is time consuming and is a continuous cycle of code modification and testing. The task of debugging depends on the environment, the language, the operating system: the problem: and more interestingly even the individual program. In this paper, we present a detailed implementation of s...

We propose a framework for predicting erroneous design components from partially observed solution sets that are found through automated debugging tools. The proposed method involves learning design component dependencies by using historical debugging data and representing these dependencies by means of a probabilistic graph. Using this representation, one can run a debugging tool non-exhaustiv...

Cyclic debugging is one of the most important and most commonly used activities in program development. During cyclic debugging, the program is repeatedly reexecuted to track down errors when a failure has been observed. This process necessitates reproducible program executions. Applying classical debugging techniques such using breakpoints or single stepping in real-time systems change the tem...

Attribute grammars (AGs) are known to be a useful formalism for semantic analysis and translation. However, debugging AGs is complex owing to inherent difficulties of AGs, such as recursive grammar structure and attribute dependency. In this paper, a new systematic method of debugging AGs is proposed. Our approach is, in principle, based on previously proposed algorithmic debugging of AGs, but ...

Anti-debugging technology refers to various ways of preventing binary files from being analyzed in debuggers or other virtual machine environments. If binary files conceal or modify themself using anti-debugging techniques, analyzing these binary files becomes harder. There are some anti-anti-debugging techniques proposed so far, but malware developers make dynamic analysis difficult using vari...

_ N9D is a debugging server with a programmable network interface. NeD is designed to be flexible and extensible enough to support a wide range of debugging needs. Debugging clients communicate with NeD by sending it programs to execute. The programming language, NeDtcl, is tcl[l] extended with 30 debugging specifrc functions. NeD can be useã as a traditional debugger with a textual interface, ...

Attribute grammars (AGs) are known to be a useful formalism for semantic analysis and translation. However, debugging AGs is complex owing to inherent difficulties of AGs, such as recursive grammar structure and attribute dependency. In this paper, a new systematic method of debugging AGs is proposed. Our approach is, in principle, based on previously proposed algorithmic debugging of AGs, but ...

The ability to debug programs composed using aspect-oriented programming (AOP) techniques is critical to the adoption of AOP. Nevertheless, many AOP systems lack adequate support for debugging, making it difficult to diagnose faults and understand the program‘s composition and control flow. We present an AOP debug model that characterizes AOP-specific program composition techniques and AOP-spec...

The logic programming language Datalog has been extensively researched as a query language for deductive databases. Although similar to Prolog, the Datalog operational mechanisms are more intricate, leading to computations quite hard to debug by traditional approaches. In this paper, we present a theoretical framework for debugging Datalog programs based on the ideas of declarative debugging. I...

Debugging at large scale on the Cray XT can involve a combination of interactive and non-interactive debugging; the paper will review subset attach and provide some recommendations for interactive debugging at large scale, and will introduce the TVScript feature of TotalView which provides for noninteractive debugging. Because many users of Cray XT systems are not physically co-located with the...