Debugging techniques for declarative languages: Profiling, program slicing and algorithmic debugging

Article type: Research Article

Authors: Silva, Josep

Affiliations: Departamento de Sistemas Informáticos y Computación, Universidad Politécnica de Valencia, Camino de Vera s/n, E-46022 Valencia, Spain. E-mail: jsilva@dsic.upv.es

Abstract: There is no doubt about the relevance of debugging in the software development process. However, the scientific community has put little attention on this task and the same debugging techniques used twenty years ago are still being used today. The thesis firstly studies and compares current debugging techniques and then it proposes new methods for the debugging of declarative languages putting special attention on profiling, program slicing and algorithmic debugging.

Keywords: Debugging, profiling, program slicing, algorithmic debugging

Journal: AI Communications, vol. 21, no. 1, pp. 91-92, 2008