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Co-ordination of multiple external representations during Java program debugging
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posted on 2023-06-07, 13:24 authored by Pablo Romero, Rudi Lutz, Richard Cox, Benedict du BoulayJava program debugging was investigated in computer science students who used a software debugging environment (SDE) that provided concurrently displayed, adjacent, multiple and linked representations consisting of the program code, a visualisation of the program, and its output. The aim of this investigation was to address questions such as 'To what extent do programmers use each type of representation?', 'Are particular patterns of representation use associated with superior debugging performance?', 'Are graphical representations more helpful to Java programmers than textual ones?' and 'Are representations that highlight data structure more useful than those that highlight control-flow for Java debugging?
History
Publication status
- Published
Publisher
IEEE Computer SocietyExternal DOI
Page range
207-214Pages
8.0Book title
Proceedings IEEE 2002 Symposia on Human Centric Computing Languages and EnvironmentsPlace of publication
Piscataway, N.JISBN
9780769516448Department affiliated with
- Informatics Publications
Full text available
- Yes
Peer reviewed?
- Yes