Designing the Whyline: A debugging interface for asking questions about program behavior

Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems - Proceedings

Volumn , Issue , 2004, Pages 151-158

  Ko, Andrew J ^a   Myers, Brad A ^a  

^a Carnegie Mellon University   (United States)

Author keywords

Alice; Debugging; Program slicing

Indexed keywords

ALICE PROGRAMMING SYSTEM; INTERROGATIVE DEBUGGING (ID); PROGRAM SLICING;

CODES (SYMBOLS); COMPUTER SOFTWARE; COMPUTER SOFTWARE SELECTION AND EVALUATION; COMPUTER SYSTEM RECOVERY; ERROR ANALYSIS; INTERFACES (COMPUTER); SOFTWARE ENGINEERING;

PROGRAM DEBUGGING;

EID: 4544342841     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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