TY  - JOUR
A1  - Perscheid, Michael
A1  - Siegmund, Benjamin
A1  - Taeumel, Marcel
A1  - Hirschfeld, Robert
T1  - Studying the advancement in debugging practice of professional software developers
JF  - Software Quality Journal
N2  - 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.
KW  - Debugging
KW  - Literature review
KW  - Field study
KW  - Online survey
Y1  - 2016
U6  - https://doi.org/10.1007/s11219-015-9294-2
SN  - 0963-9314
SN  - 1573-1367
VL  - 25
SP  - 83
EP  - 110
PB  - Springer
CY  - Dordrecht
ER  - 
TY  - JOUR
A1  - Steinert, Bastian
A1  - Cassou, Damien
A1  - Hirschfeld, Robert
T1  - CoExist overcoming aversion to change preserving immediate access to source code and run-time information of previous development states
JF  - ACM SIGPLAN notices
N2  - 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.
KW  - Design
KW  - Experimentation
KW  - Human Factors
KW  - Continuous Testing
KW  - Continuous Versioning
KW  - Debugging
KW  - Evolution
KW  - Explore-first Programming
KW  - Fault Localization
KW  - Prototyping
Y1  - 2013
U6  - https://doi.org/10.1145/2480360.2384591
SN  - 0362-1340
VL  - 48
IS  - 2
SP  - 107
EP  - 117
PB  - Association for Computing Machinery
CY  - New York
ER  -