Cognitive activities and support in debugging

Proceedings - 4th Annual Symposium on Human Interaction with Complex Systems, HICS 1998

Volumn 1998-March, Issue , 1998, Pages 160-169

  Yoon, Byung Do ^a   Garcia, Oscar N ^b  

^a George Washington University   (United States)

^b Wright State University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FLOW GRAPHS;

BREAK-POINTS; COGNITIVE ACTIVITIES; CONTROL FLOW GRAPHS; DEBUGGING AIDS; DEBUGGING PROCESS; DEBUGGING TOOLS; DESIGN RATIONALE;

PROGRAM DEBUGGING;

EID: 84991787927     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/HUICS.1998.659974     Document Type: Conference Paper

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