| Presentation | 2009-11-27 An Analysis on How Programmers Use Breakpoints in Debugging Takuro YOSHIMURA, Yasutaka KAMEI, Hidetake UWANO, Akito MONDEN, Ken-ichi MATSUMOTO, |
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| Abstract(in English) | Debugging performance greatly depends on the programmers' debugging skill. If factors concerning the debugging performance are extracted from programmers' actions, it would be useful for performance improvement. Our goal is to clarify debugging skills of effective use of debuggers. To achieve this goal, we conducted a pilot experiment to analyze programmers' actions in debugging a small Java program (about 150 source lines of code) using Eclipse. As a result of analysis of 6 subjects' debugging actions, we found that expert programmers used more breakpoints than novices. Also, we found that novices tend to set breakpoints one by one to adjacent lines. |
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| Keyword(in English) | debug / debugger / breakpoint / program comprehension |
| Paper # | KBSE2009-45 |
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| Conference Date | 2009/11/19(1days) |
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| Language | JPN |
| Title (in Japanese) | (See Japanese page) |
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| Title (in English) | An Analysis on How Programmers Use Breakpoints in Debugging |
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| Keyword(1) | debug |
| Keyword(2) | debugger |
| Keyword(3) | breakpoint |
| Keyword(4) | program comprehension |
| 1st Author's Name | Takuro YOSHIMURA |
| 1st Author's Affiliation | Graduate School of Information Science, Nara Institute of Science and Technology() |
| 2nd Author's Name | Yasutaka KAMEI |
| 2nd Author's Affiliation | Graduate School of Information Science, Nara Institute of Science and Technology |
| 3rd Author's Name | Hidetake UWANO |
| 3rd Author's Affiliation | Infomation Engineering, Nara National Colleage of Technology |
| 4th Author's Name | Akito MONDEN |
| 4th Author's Affiliation | Graduate School of Information Science, Nara Institute of Science and Technology |
| 5th Author's Name | Ken-ichi MATSUMOTO |
| 5th Author's Affiliation | Graduate School of Information Science, Nara Institute of Science and Technology |
| Date | 2009-11-27 |
| Paper # | KBSE2009-45 |
| Volume (vol) | vol.109 |
| Number (no) | 307 |
| Page | pp.pp.- |
| #Pages | 6 |
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