by Shinji Uchida, Akito Monden, Hajimu Iida
Proceedings of International Symposium on Future Software Technology 2000
http://tori.aist-nara.ac.jp/torii-lab/paper/isfst2000uchida.pdf
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Abstract:
This paper proposes analysis models for representing processes of debugging unfamiliar programs focusing on how engineers comprehend each software module and locate a bug. Since actual debugging strategies relate to engineers ’ impressions of each software module – either the module is faulty, not faulty or uncertain, proposed models consider both mental- and external- activities of engineers. We applied periodic interviewing method for quantitatively capturing engineers ’ mental activities. By characterizing target programs from multiple viewpoints such as module dependences and program slicing, engineers ’ debugging activities were analyzed in details based on the models.
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