How helpful are automated debugging tools?

Rossler,

doi:10.1109/user.2012.6226573

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“…Consequently, they have not been widely adopted in practice. Moreover, automated debugging approaches are often unable to indicate the "true" locations of faults [7]. Other more interactive methods, such as slicing and query languages, help developers but, to date, there has been no evidence that they significantly ease developers' debugging activities.…”

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confidence: 99%

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Swarm debugging: The collective intelligence on interactive debugging

Petrillo

Guéhéneuc

Pimenta

et al. 2019

Journal of Systems and Software

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One of the most important tasks in software maintenance is debugging. To start an interactive debugging session, developers usually set breakpoints in an integrated development environment and navigate through different paths in their debuggers. We started our work by asking what debugging information is useful to share among developers and study two pieces of information: breakpoints (and their locations) and sessions (debugging paths).To answer our question, we introduce the Swarm Debugging concept to frame the sharing of debugging information, the Swarm Debugging Infrastructure (SDI) with which practitioners and researchers can collect and share data about developers' interactive debugging sessions, and the Swarm Debugging Global View (GV) to display debugging paths. Using the SDI, we conducted a large study with professional developers to understand how developers set breakpoints. Using the GV, we also analyzed professional developers in two studies and collected data about their debugging sessions. Our observations and the answers to our research questions suggest that sharing and visualizing debugging data can support debugging activities.

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confidence: 99%

“…Roßler [7] advocated for the development of a new family of debugging tools that use contextual information. To build context-aware debugging tools, researchers need an understanding of developers' debugging sessions to use this information as context for their debugging.…”

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confidence: 99%