@article{PerscheidSiegmundTaeumeletal.2017,
  author    = {Perscheid, Michael and Siegmund, Benjamin and Taeumel, Marcel and Hirschfeld, Robert},
  title     = {Studying the advancement in debugging practice of professional software developers},
  series = {Software Quality Journal},
  volume    = {25},
  journal   = {Software Quality Journal},
  publisher = {Springer},
  address   = {Dordrecht},
  issn      = {0963-9314},
  doi       = {10.1007/s11219-015-9294-2},
  pages     = {83 -- 110},
  year      = {2017},
  abstract  = {In 1997, Henry Lieberman stated that debugging is the dirty little secret of computer science. Since then, several promising debugging technologies have been developed such as back-in-time debuggers and automatic fault localization methods. However, the last study about the state-of-the-art in debugging is still more than 15 years old and so it is not clear whether these new approaches have been applied in practice or not. For that reason, we investigate the current state of debugging in a comprehensive study. First, we review the available literature and learn about current approaches and study results. Second, we observe several professional developers while debugging and interview them about their experiences. Third, we create a questionnaire that serves as the basis for a larger online debugging survey. Based on these results, we present new insights into debugging practice that help to suggest new directions for future research.},
  language  = {en}
}
@article{SteinertCassouHirschfeld2013,
  author    = {Steinert, Bastian and Cassou, Damien and Hirschfeld, Robert},
  title     = {CoExist overcoming aversion to change preserving immediate access to source code and run-time information of previous development states},
  series = {ACM SIGPLAN notices},
  volume    = {48},
  journal   = {ACM SIGPLAN notices},
  number    = {2},
  publisher = {Association for Computing Machinery},
  address   = {New York},
  issn      = {0362-1340},
  doi       = {10.1145/2480360.2384591},
  pages     = {107 -- 117},
  year      = {2013},
  abstract  = {Programmers make many changes to the program to eventually find a good solution for a given task. In this course of change, every intermediate development state can of value, when, for example, a promising ideas suddenly turn out inappropriate or the interplay of objects turns out more complex than initially expected before making changes. Programmers would benefit from tool support that provides immediate access to source code and run-time of previous development states of interest. We present IDE extensions, implemented for Squeak/Smalltalk, to preserve, retrieve, and work with this information. With such tool support, programmers can work without worries because they can rely on tools that help them with whatever their explorations will reveal. They no longer have to follow certain best practices only to avoid undesired consequences of changing code.},
  language  = {en}
}