Implementation of a debugging aid for logic errors in Pascal programs

Authors:
Trevor Lukey;Kenneth Loose;David R. Hill
Affiliations:
Department of Computer Science, The University of Calgary, Calgary, Alberta, Canada;Department of Computer Science, The University of Calgary, Calgary, Alberta, Canada;Department of Computer Science, The University of Calgary, Calgary, Alberta, Canada
Venue:
SIGCSE '87 Proceedings of the eighteenth SIGCSE technical symposium on Computer science education
Year:
1987

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Abstract

This paper describes a debugging utility with some tutorial capabilities. It is designed to assist novice programmers in finding logic errors in syntactically correct programs. Flow and use analysis techniques are employed to aid in the recognition of some instances of incorrect code sequence, improper variable use and improper nesting of constructs. The utility is menu driven with built in facilities for displaying user source programs and debugging information in a multiple window format.