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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 Boulay
Java 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?

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Publication status

  • Published

Publisher

IEEE Computer Society

Page range

207-214

Pages

8.0

Book title

Proceedings IEEE 2002 Symposia on Human Centric Computing Languages and Environments

Place of publication

Piscataway, N.J

ISBN

9780769516448

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  • Informatics Publications

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  • Yes

Peer reviewed?

  • Yes

Legacy Posted Date

2006-10-26

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