Download or read book An Integrated Approach to Instruction in Debugging Computer Programs written by Ryan Joseph Chmiel and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book An Integrated Approach for Automated Software Debugging Via Machine Learning and Big Code Mining written by Xia Li and published by . This book was released on 2020 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Over the past decades, software systems have been widely adopted in almost all aspects of human lives, and are making our lives more and more convenient. However, software systems also inevitably suffer from different faults (a.k.a., bugs), which can incur great loss of properties and even lives. Due to the huge code volume, manual debugging can be always time-consuming and error-prone. This thesis is a novel integrated approach for automated debugging that can help localize and detect different software faults. Specifically, fault localization (FL) can help localize the potential faulty location(s) if some test cases fail in a program while API-misuse detection can help detect API related bugs due to API misuses without the execution of test cases. We seek to improve the effectiveness of fault localization and API misuses detection by applying knowledge from various fields such as static and dynamic program analysis, machine learning/deep learning techniques, as well as mining big code repositories. In this dissertation, we propose two fault localization techniques and one API-misuse detection technique. The first fault localization technique is called TraPT, which is a learning-to-rank-based technique to combine transformed impact information extracted from mutation-based fault localization (MBFL) and coverage information extracted from spectrum-based fault localization (SBFL). The second fault localization technique is called DeepFL which is the first deep-learning-based fault localization technique integrating various dynamic and static program features. The two fault localization techniques rely on high-quality test cases to capture necessary program features but not all software systems can provide such tests, making fault localization techniques not always available. To solve more comprehensive debugging problems, we also propose an API-misuse detection technique called BiD3 based on the analysis of a large-scale of bug-fixing commits (958,368 commits in total) in history, which doesn’t require the execution of test cases. Various experiments on the three techniques show the promising effectiveness. For example, DeepFL can localize 213 faults within Top-1 out of 395 real faults, 53 more faults than state-of-the-art technique (33.1% improvement). BiD3 can detect 360 real misuses in the latest Apache projects and 57 misuses have been confirmed and fixed by developers.
Download or read book Distributed Debugging An Integrated Approach written by Stephen Lesavich and published by Coconut Avenue, Inc.. This book was released on 1991-03-15 with total page 163 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The design and development of digital computer software for distributed concurrent programming environments has increased significantly in the past few years. The presence of remote processors and concurrency greatly complicates the creation, analysis, testing, and debugging of all software produced for these environments. It appears that few tools developed for sequential environments are adequate for debugging software programs in a distributed concurrent environment. The distributed concurrent environment also presents the need for special debugging tools that were not needed for sequential environments. This research will present a new model for debugging programs in a distributed concurrent programming environment. This new model was used to design, develop, and implement an integrated, cooperating set of concurrent debugging tools. The new debugging model and tool set were used in a distributed Concurrent C development environment running under the UNIX® operating system and connected by an Ethernet local area network. Actual results obtained from using the new debugging scheme and integrated debugging tool set to detect, locate, and correct software faults in distributed Concurrent C programs are also presented.
Download or read book Debugging at the Electronic System Level written by Frank Rogin and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2010-06-17 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Debugging becomes more and more the bottleneck to chip design productivity, especially while developing modern complex integrated circuits and systems at the Electronic System Level (ESL). Today, debugging is still an unsystematic and lengthy process. Here, a simple reporting of a failure is not enough, anymore. Rather, it becomes more and more important not only to find many errors early during development but also to provide efficient methods for their isolation. In Debugging at the Electronic System Level the state-of-the-art of modeling and verification of ESL designs is reviewed. There, a particular focus is taken onto SystemC. Then, a reasoning hierarchy is introduced. The hierarchy combines well-known debugging techniques with whole new techniques to improve the verification efficiency at ESL. The proposed systematic debugging approach is supported amongst others by static code analysis, debug patterns, dynamic program slicing, design visualization, property generation, and automatic failure isolation. All techniques were empirically evaluated using real-world industrial designs. Summarized, the introduced approach enables a systematic search for errors in ESL designs. Here, the debugging techniques improve and accelerate error detection, observation, and isolation as well as design understanding.
Download or read book Advanced Debugging Methods written by Raimondas Lencevicius and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2000-08-31 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Object relationships in modern software systems are becoming increasingly numerous and complex, and program errors due to violations of object relationships are difficult to detect. Programmers need new tools that allow them to explore objects in a large system more efficiently and to detect broken object relationships instantaneously. Such tools incorporate approaches used in such areas as data visualization, pattern matching and extraction, database querying, active databases, and rule-based programming. The query-based debugging approach developed by the author of this book is another powerful yet efficient tool to be added to the developer's tool chest. Advanced Debugging Methods presents practice and tools for debugging computer programs. This book proposes new powerful approaches that simplify the daunting task of debugging complex software systems. Although debugging has been addressed in numerous research papers, many of its methods have yet to be explored in a book-length format. This book helps to fill this gap by presenting an overview of existing debugging tools with motivating examples and case studies, as well as presenting new, state-of-the-art debugging methods. Advanced Debugging Methods will be of use to software developers looking for tools to be applied in cutting edge practice; system architects looking at the relationship between software design and debugging; tools and programming language researchers looking for new ideas in run-time tool implementation as well as detailed descriptions of advanced implementations; and university professors and graduate students who will use this book as supplementary reading for graduate courses in programming tools, language implementation, and advanced object-oriented systems. Advanced Debugging Methods is also a handy reference of currently existing debugging methodologies as well as a springboard for cutting-edge research to simplify the difficult task of debugging and to facilitate the development of more robust software systems.
Download or read book Software Verification and Analysis written by Janusz Laski and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2009-04-29 with total page 229 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “The situation is good, but not hopeless” (Polish folk wisdom) The text is devoted to the Software Analysis and Testing (SAT) methods and s- porting tools for assessing and, if possible, improving software quality, specifically its correctness. The term quality assurance is avoided for it is this author’s firm belief that in the current state of the art that goal is unattainable, a plethora of “gu- anteed” solutions to the problem notwithstanding. Therefore, the rather awkward phrase “improving correctness” is to be understood as an effort to minimize the number of residual programming faults (“bugs”) and their impact on the software’s behavior, that is, to make the faults tolerable. It is clear that such a minimalist approach is a result of frustration. Indeed, having spent years developing software and teaching (preaching?) “How to do it right,” I still do not know how to go about it with any degree of certainty! It appears then I probably should stop right now, for who with a modicum of common sense would reach for a text that does not offer salvation but (as will be seen) hard work and misery? If I intend to continue, it is only that I suspect there are many professionals out there who have similar doubts. And they are the intended audience of this project. The philosophical underpinning of the text is the importance of sound engine- ing practices in software development.
Download or read book The Debugging of Computer Programs written by R. Stockton Gaines and published by . This book was released on 1969 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This thesis is a general study of the tools and techniques for debugging computer programs, and the design of compilers and operating systems to facilitate debugging. It includes an analysis of the programming process to identify carefully what the problems are in debugging and how they arise. The problems of debugging programs written in higher-level languages are considered in detail, and the construction of compilers and programming languages for debugging receives careful attention. The construction of interactive debugging systems and operating system features necessary to support advanced debugging facilities is discussed. Three interactive debugging systems are considered in detail, including one which was designed to work with CRT consoles. A number of new ideas in this are presented, and the considerable advantages of interactive debugging are clearly demonstrated.
Download or read book Effective Debugging written by Diomidis Spinellis and published by Addison-Wesley Professional. This book was released on 2016-06-29 with total page 512 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Every software developer and IT professional understands the crucial importance of effective debugging. Often, debugging consumes most of a developer’s workday, and mastering the required techniques and skills can take a lifetime. In Effective Debugging, Diomidis Spinellis helps experienced programmers accelerate their journey to mastery, by systematically categorizing, explaining, and illustrating the most useful debugging methods, strategies, techniques, and tools. Drawing on more than thirty-five years of experience, Spinellis expands your arsenal of debugging techniques, helping you choose the best approaches for each challenge. He presents vendor-neutral, example-rich advice on general principles, high-level strategies, concrete techniques, high-efficiency tools, creative tricks, and the behavioral traits associated with effective debugging. Spinellis’s 66 expert techniques address every facet of debugging and are illustrated with step-by-step instructions and actual code. He addresses the full spectrum of problems that can arise in modern software systems, especially problems caused by complex interactions among components and services running on hosts scattered around the planet. Whether you’re debugging isolated runtime errors or catastrophic enterprise system failures, this guide will help you get the job done—more quickly, and with less pain. Key features include High-level strategies and methods for addressing diverse software failures Specific techniques to apply when programming, compiling, and running code Better ways to make the most of your debugger General-purpose skills and tools worth investing in Advanced ideas and techniques for escaping dead-ends and the maze of complexity Advice for making programs easier to debug Specialized approaches for debugging multithreaded, asynchronous, and embedded code Bug avoidance through improved software design, construction, and management
Download or read book Why Programs Fail written by Andreas Zeller and published by Morgan Kaufmann. This book was released on 2006 with total page 448 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Why Programs Fail is about bugs in computer programs, how to find them, how to reproduce them, and how to fix them in such a way that they do not occur anymore. This is the first comprehensive book on systematic debugging and covers a wide range of tools and techniques ranging from hands-on observation to fully automated diagnoses, and includes instructions for building automated debuggers. This discussion is built upon a solid theory of how failures occur, rather than relying on seat-of-the-pants techniques, which are of little help with large software systems or to those learning to program. The author, Andreas Zeller, is well known in the programming community for creating the GNU Data Display Debugger (DDD), a tool that visualizes the data structures of a program while it is running.
Download or read book Multiview an Integrated Approach to Visualization of Parallel Programs written by Cynthia Hope Ferguson and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 92 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Scientific and Technical Aerospace Reports written by and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 704 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Debugging written by David J. Agans and published by HarperChristian + ORM. This book was released on 2002-09-23 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When the pressure is on to resolve an elusive software or hardware glitch, what’s needed is a cool head courtesy of a set of rules guaranteed to work on any system, in any circumstance. Written in a frank but engaging style, this book provides simple, foolproof principles guaranteed to help find any bug quickly. Recognized tech expert and author David Agans changes the way you think about debugging, making those pesky problems suddenly much easier to find and fix. Agans identifies nine simple, practical rules that are applicable to any software application or hardware system, which can help detect any bug, no matter how tricky or obscure. Illustrating the rules with real-life bug-detection war stories, Debugging shows you how to: Understand the system: how perceiving the ""roadmap"" can hasten your journey Quit thinking and look: when hands-on investigation can’t be avoided Isolate critical factors: why changing one element at a time can be an essential tool Keep an audit trail: how keeping a record of the debugging process can win the day Whether the system or program you’re working on has been designed wrong, built wrong, or used wrong, Debugging helps you think correctly about bugs, so the problems virtually reveal themselves.
Download or read book Guide to Teaching Computer Science written by Orit Hazzan and published by Springer. This book was released on 2015-01-07 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This textbook presents both a conceptual framework and detailed implementation guidelines for computer science (CS) teaching. Updated with the latest teaching approaches and trends, and expanded with new learning activities, the content of this new edition is clearly written and structured to be applicable to all levels of CS education and for any teaching organization. Features: provides 110 detailed learning activities; reviews curriculum and cross-curriculum topics in CS; explores the benefits of CS education research; describes strategies for cultivating problem-solving skills, for assessing learning processes, and for dealing with pupils’ misunderstandings; proposes active-learning-based classroom teaching methods, including lab-based teaching; discusses various types of questions that a CS instructor or trainer can use for a range of teaching situations; investigates thoroughly issues of lesson planning and course design; examines the first field teaching experiences gained by CS teachers.
Download or read book Modeling of Living Systems written by Alain Pavé and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2012-12-27 with total page 501 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Modeling is now one of the most efficient methodologies in life sciences. From practice to theory, this book develops this approach illustrated by many examples; general concepts and the current state of the art are also presented and discussed. An historical and general introduction informs the reader how mathematics and formal tools are used to solve biological problems at all levels of the organization of life. The core of this book explains how this is done, based on practical examples coming, for the most part, from the author’s personal experience. In most cases, data are included so that the reader can follow the reasoning process and even reproduce calculus. The final chapter is devoted to essential concepts and current developments. The main mathematical tools are presented in an appendix to the book and are written in an adapted language readable by scientists, professionals or students, with a basic knowledge of mathematics.
Download or read book Distributed Debugging written by Stephen Lesavich and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Programming and Computational Thinking in Technology Education written by and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2023-10-09 with total page 362 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the last decade, programming and computational thinking (CT) have been introduced on a large scale in school curricula and standards all over the world. In countries such as the UK, a new school subject—computing—was created, whereas in countries such as Sweden, programming was included in existing subjects, notably mathematics and technology education. The introduction of programming and CT in technology education implies a particular relationship between programming and technology. Programming is usually performed with technological artefacts—various types of computers—and it can also be seen as a specific branch of engineering. This book analyses the background to and current implementation of programming and computational thinking in a Swedish school technology context, in relation to international developments. The various chapters deal with pertinent issues in technology education and its relation to computers and computing, for example, computational thinking and literacy, teachers’ programming competence, and computational thinking, programming, and learning in technology education. The book includes examples from educational research that could also be used as inspiration for school teaching, teacher education and curriculum development.
Download or read book ECGBL 2018 12th European Conference on Game Based Learning written by Dr Melanie Ciussi and published by Academic Conferences and publishing limited. This book was released on 2018-10-04 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
