whm.arizona@Rand-Relay@sri-unix.UUCP (07/28/83)
1983 August) of SIGSOFT's Software
Engineering Notes and as vol. 18, no. 8 (1983 August) of SIGPLAN
Notices. All members of SIGSOFT and SIGPLAN should receive copies
sometime in August.
Mark Johnson at HP has put together a pair of documents on debugging.
They are:
"An Annotated Software Debugging Bibliography"
"A Software Debugging Glossary"
I believe that a non-annotated version of this bibliography appeared
in SIGPLAN in February 1982. The annotated bibliography is the basic
gold mine of "pointers" about debugging.
Mark can be contacted at:
Mark Scott Johnson
Hewlett-Packard Laboratories
1501 Page Mill Road, 3U24
Palo Alto, CA 94304
415/857-8719
Arpa: Johnson.HP-Labs@RAND-RELAY
USENET: ...!ucbvax!hplabs!johnson
Two books were mentioned that are not currently included in Mark's
bibliography:
"Algorithmic Debugging" by Ehud Shapiro. It has information
on source-level debugging, debuggers in the language being
debugged, debuggers for unconventional languages, etc. It
is supposedly available from MIT Press. (From
dixon.pa@parc-maxc)
"Smalltalk-80: The Interactive Programming Environment"
A section of the book describes the system's interactive
debugger. (This book is supposedly due in bookstores
on or around the middle of October. A much earlier
version of the debugger was briefly described in the
August 1981 BYTE.) (From Pavel@Cornel.)
Ken Laws (Laws@sri-iu) sent me an extract from "A Bibliography of
Automatic Programming" which contained a number of references on
topics such as programmer's apprentices, program understanding,
programming by example, etc.
Many thanks to those who took the time to reply.
Bill Mitchell
The University of Arizona
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