A Proposal for Sniffer: a System that Understands Bugs

This paper proposes an interactive debugging aid that exhibits a deep understanding of a narrow class of bugs. This system, called Sniffer, will be able to find and identify errors, and explain them in terms which are relevant to the programmer. Sniffer is knowledgeable about side-effects. It is cap...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Shapiro, Daniel G.
Format: Working Paper
Language:en_US
Published: MIT Artificial Intelligence Laboratory 2008
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/41154