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My Hairiest Bug War Stories by Marc Eisenstadt is a Computer Science article available to read on EtoBox.
What is My Hairiest Bug War Stories about?
ming and debugging , while important in their own right, have generally overlooked the potential benefit of self-reports by programmers that reflect the phenomenology of debugging, that is, what it's really like out there from the programmer's perspective. However, two exceptions to this observation are the detailed account by Knuth of using a logbook to document all the errors he encountered over a 10-year development period working on TeX [6] and a logbook of the development efforts of a team implementing the S Smalltalk-80 virtual machine . Such self-reports and logs are valuable sources on the nature of software design, development, and maintenance. The work reported here seeks to expand the single-user-logbook approach to investigate the phenomenology of debugging across a large population of users, aiming to understand and address the problems of professional programmers working on very large programming tasks.Toward this end, I conducted a survey of professional programmers, asking them to describe their most diffi-cult bugs involving large pieces of software. The survey was conducted through email and conferencing/bulletin board facilities with worldwide access, including U
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- Author
- Marc Eisenstadt
- Publisher
- ACM
- Published
- 1997
- Language
- EN
- Field
- Computer Science (Physical Sciences)