Debugging and the experience of immediacy
Communications of the ACM
Dynamic Query-Based Debugging of Object-Oriented Programs
Automated Software Engineering
Designing the whyline: a debugging interface for asking questions about program behavior
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Snapshot Query-Based Debugging
ASWEC '04 Proceedings of the 2004 Australian Software Engineering Conference
Using Compressed Bytecode Traces for Slicing Java Programs
Proceedings of the 26th International Conference on Software Engineering
A brief survey of program slicing
ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes
Locating causes of program failures
Proceedings of the 27th international conference on Software engineering
Scalable statistical bug isolation
Proceedings of the 2005 ACM SIGPLAN conference on Programming language design and implementation
Whole execution traces and their applications
ACM Transactions on Architecture and Code Optimization (TACO)
Dynamic Feature Traces: Finding Features in Unfamiliar Code
ICSM '05 Proceedings of the 21st IEEE International Conference on Software Maintenance
Goal-Directed Debugging of Spreadsheets
VLHCC '05 Proceedings of the 2005 IEEE Symposium on Visual Languages and Human-Centric Computing
Answering why and why not questions in user interfaces
Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
A Linguistic Analysis of How People Describe Software Problems
VLHCC '06 Proceedings of the Visual Languages and Human-Centric Computing
IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering
A Technique for Enabling and Supporting Debugging of Field Failures
ICSE '07 Proceedings of the 29th international conference on Software Engineering
Information Needs in Collocated Software Development Teams
ICSE '07 Proceedings of the 29th international conference on Software Engineering
Proceedings of the 2007 ACM SIGPLAN conference on Programming language design and implementation
End user software engineering: chi'2008 special interest group meeting
CHI '08 Extended Abstracts on Human Factors in Computing Systems
More natural end-user software engineering
Proceedings of the 4th international workshop on End-user software engineering
Finding causes of program output with the Java Whyline
Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
End user software engineering: CHI: 2009 special interest group meeting
CHI '09 Extended Abstracts on Human Factors in Computing Systems
VIDA: Visual interactive debugging
ICSE '09 Proceedings of the 31st International Conference on Software Engineering
A DSL for Explaining Probabilistic Reasoning
DSL '09 Proceedings of the IFIP TC 2 Working Conference on Domain-Specific Languages
Capturing propagation of infected program states
Proceedings of the the 7th joint meeting of the European software engineering conference and the ACM SIGSOFT symposium on The foundations of software engineering
Debugging debugging: acm sigsoft impact paper award keynote
Proceedings of the the 7th joint meeting of the European software engineering conference and the ACM SIGSOFT symposium on The foundations of software engineering
Demystifying model transformations: an approach based on automated rule inference
Proceedings of the 24th ACM SIGPLAN conference on Object oriented programming systems languages and applications
TESTCOM '09/FATES '09 Proceedings of the 21st IFIP WG 6.1 International Conference on Testing of Software and Communication Systems and 9th International FATES Workshop
Generative usability: security and user centered design beyond the appliance
NSPW '09 Proceedings of the 2009 workshop on New security paradigms workshop
A lightweight approach for program analysis and debugging
Proceedings of the 3rd India software engineering conference
What would other programmers do: suggesting solutions to error messages
Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
Dynamic and graphical web page breakpoints
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Code bubbles: rethinking the user interface paradigm of integrated development environments
Proceedings of the 32nd ACM/IEEE International Conference on Software Engineering - Volume 1
Proceedings of 2010 ICSE Workshop on Search-driven Development: Users, Infrastructure, Tools and Evaluation
BPGen: an automated breakpoint generator for debugging
Proceedings of the 32nd ACM/IEEE International Conference on Software Engineering - Volume 2
Extracting and answering why and why not questions about Java program output
ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology (TOSEM)
The future of software engineering: enhancing human expertise in tackling software quality
Proceedings of the FSE/SDP workshop on Future of software engineering research
Program fields for continuous software
Proceedings of the FSE/SDP workshop on Future of software engineering research
Human-centric software engineering
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The state of the art in end-user software engineering
ACM Computing Surveys (CSUR)
Hard-to-answer questions about code
Evaluation and Usability of Programming Languages and Tools
Evolutionary repair of faulty software
Applied Soft Computing
Feedlack detects missing feedback in web applications
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Are automated debugging techniques actually helping programmers?
Proceedings of the 2011 International Symposium on Software Testing and Analysis
Querypoint: moving backwards on wrong values in the buggy execution
Proceedings of the 19th ACM SIGSOFT symposium and the 13th European conference on Foundations of software engineering
Summarized trace indexing and querying for scalable back-in-time debugging
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Bug localization in test-driven development
Advances in Software Engineering
Stacksplorer: call graph navigation helps increasing code maintenance efficiency
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Data-driven synthesis for object-oriented frameworks
Proceedings of the 2011 ACM international conference on Object oriented programming systems languages and applications
CJAdviser: SMT-based debugging support for ContextJ
Proceedings of the 3rd International Workshop on Context-Oriented Programming
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Proceedings of the 3rd ACM SIGPLAN workshop on Evaluation and usability of programming languages and tools
Querying source code with natural language
ASE '11 Proceedings of the 2011 26th IEEE/ACM International Conference on Automated Software Engineering
Evaluating interactive support for secure programming
Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
What is my program doing? program dynamics in programmer's terms
RV'11 Proceedings of the Second international conference on Runtime verification
Proceedings of the ACM international symposium on New ideas, new paradigms, and reflections on programming and software
Automating presentation changes in dynamic web applications via collaborative hybrid analysis
Proceedings of the ACM SIGSOFT 20th International Symposium on the Foundations of Software Engineering
A visual language for explaining probabilistic reasoning
Journal of Visual Languages and Computing
Generating sound and effective memory debuggers
Proceedings of the 2013 international symposium on memory management
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Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
Expositor: scriptable time-travel debugging with first-class traces
Proceedings of the 2013 International Conference on Software Engineering
Game programming by demonstration
Proceedings of the 2013 ACM international symposium on New ideas, new paradigms, and reflections on programming & software
Semi-automated debugging via binary search through a process lifetime
Proceedings of the Seventh Workshop on Programming Languages and Operating Systems
DeltaPath: Precise and Scalable Calling Context Encoding
Proceedings of Annual IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Code Generation and Optimization
DrDebug: Deterministic Replay based Cyclic Debugging with Dynamic Slicing
Proceedings of Annual IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Code Generation and Optimization
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When software developers want to understand the reason for a program's behavior, they must translate their questions about the behavior into a series of questions about code, speculating about the causes in the process. The Whyline is a new kind of debugging tool that avoids such speculation by instead enabling developers to select a question about program output from a set of why did and why didn't questions derived from the program's code and execution. The tool then finds one or more possible explanations for the output in question, using a combination of static and dynamic slicing, precise call graphs, and new algorithms for determining potential sources of values and explanations for why a line of code was not reached. Evaluations of the tool on one task showed that novice programmers with the Whyline were twice as fast as expert programmers without it. The tool has the potential to simplify debugging in many software development contexts.