Siren songs and swan songs: Debugging with music

Communications of the ACM

Volumn 46, Issue 7, 2003, Pages 86-92

  Vickers, Paul ^a   Alty, James L ^b,c  

^a NORTHUMBRIA UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b Department of Computer Science ^*  (United Kingdom)

^c LOUGHBOROUGH UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AURALIZATIONS; BUG IDENTIFICATION; SONGS; SYMPHONY;

ACOUSTIC WAVES; BOOLEAN ALGEBRA; COMPACT DISKS; COMPUTERS; ERRORS; GRAPHICAL USER INTERFACES; HUMAN COMPUTER INTERACTION; JAVA PROGRAMMING LANGUAGE; PASCAL (PROGRAMMING LANGUAGE); PROGRAM DEBUGGING; RADIO RECEIVERS;

COMPUTER MUSIC;

EID: 4243180304     PISSN: 00010782     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1145/792704.792734     Document Type: Review

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