Useful research on debugging

[dbosk]

Notes from Laurie Gale's talk at UpCERG

• Cognitive load theory

• Debugging exercises: simple programs and sabotage them with common errors.

  • Multiple errors at the same time, why not only one error at a time? Isn't one error at a time more realistic?

• Laurie Gale might have tools that are interesting for studying debugging data.

• The debugging study (study 1a) is exactly what I'd like to do, but with variation theory.

• Thonny debugging tool?

• Olli Kiljunen has developed a tool to teach debugging inside the IDE.