VIPS: a visual debugger for list structures

Author

Shimomura, Takao ; Isoda, Sadahiro

Author_Institution

NTT Software Lab., Tokyo, Japan

fYear

1990

fDate

31 Oct-2 Nov 1990

Firstpage

530

Lastpage

537

Abstract

A description is given of VIPS, a visual debugging system which makes it easy to debug programs by visually displaying the program execution from various aspects using multiple windows. VIPS automatically acquires data type information from the program to be debugged and rapidly displays data structures. The current version of VIPS aims at list structures, which are the most difficult type of data structures for debugging. A preliminary evaluation shows that VIPS enables a user to find bugs in about 30% less time using about 25% fewer debugging commands compared with a conventional debugging tool

Keywords

program debugging; software tools; visual programming; VIPS; data structures; data type information; list structures; multiple windows; visual debugger; visual debugging system; Computer bugs; Control systems; Data structures; Data visualization; Debugging; Displays; Educational programs; Laboratories; Programming profession; Uninterruptible power systems;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Computer Software and Applications Conference, 1990. COMPSAC 90. Proceedings., Fourteenth Annual International

Conference_Location

Chicago, IL

Print_ISBN

0-8186-2054-4

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/CMPSAC.1990.139427

Filename

139427

Link To Document

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