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ENTCS
2010
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13 years 4 months ago
Debugging as a Science, that too, when your Program is Changing
Program debugging is an extremely time-consuming process, and it takes up a large portion of software development time. In practice, debugging is still very much of an art, with t...
Abhik Roychoudhury
SIGOPSE
1998
ACM
13 years 9 months ago
Goal-oriented programming, or composition using events, or threads considered harmful
with this, the thread abstraction was introduced. While threads are handling events, or awaiting specific events, unrelated events can be handled by other threads. Unfortunately, ...
Robbert van Renesse
ESEC
1999
Springer
13 years 9 months ago
Yesterday, My Program Worked. Today, It Does Not. Why?
Imagine some program and a number of changes. If none of these changes is applied (“yesterday”), the program works. If all changes are applied (“today”), the program does n...
Andreas Zeller

Book
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15 years 2 months ago
Action Arcade Adventure Set
"Have you ever played a side-scrolling action arcade game on your PC and wondered what it takes to program one? How do the programmers scroll their backgrounds so fast and mak...
Diana Gruber
SIGCSE
2008
ACM
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13 years 4 months ago
Backstop: a tool for debugging runtime errors
The errors that Java programmers are likely to encounter can roughly be categorized into three groups: compile-time (semantic and syntactic), logical, and runtime (exceptions). Wh...
Christian Murphy, Eunhee Kim, Gail E. Kaiser, Adam...