An overview of debugging tools

  • Authors:
  • Rob Law

  • Affiliations:
  • HTM, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hung Hom, Kowloon

  • Venue:
  • ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes
  • Year:
  • 1997

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Abstract

This paper reviews empirical studies on debugging models and the findings associated with these models. There is a discussion on the evolution of program slicing applied to program debugging and different generations of debugging tools are analyzed and criticized.Finally, a programming environment section provides examples of program maintenance tools.