New Software Debugging Technique Developed
Published by: Sierra, in News
October4th2007
The researchers at the University of California-Davis have developed a technique of fast program debugging, this involving automatically "chipping" the software into smaller pieces, which will isolate the bugs easier.
The common method of debugging is breaking the hundreds of lines of code into smaller pieces, until the error is identified.
Professor Ron Olsson and the graduate student Chad Sterling from UC Davis have automated the debugging process by isolating the pieces of code and in the same time preserving the program’s structure.
Professor Ron Olsson said “The pieces have to work after they are cut down. You can't just cut in mid-sentence."
The researchers demonstrated how to reduce large programs to 20 percent to 35 percent of their former size in less than an hour, with the program developed for Java language, called ChipperJ.
The common method of debugging is breaking the hundreds of lines of code into smaller pieces, until the error is identified.
Professor Ron Olsson and the graduate student Chad Sterling from UC Davis have automated the debugging process by isolating the pieces of code and in the same time preserving the program’s structure.
Professor Ron Olsson said “The pieces have to work after they are cut down. You can't just cut in mid-sentence."
The researchers demonstrated how to reduce large programs to 20 percent to 35 percent of their former size in less than an hour, with the program developed for Java language, called ChipperJ.
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