Hat-Delta --- One Right Does Make a Wrong

Davie, Thomas and Chitil, Olaf (2005) Hat-Delta --- One Right Does Make a Wrong. In: Hat Day 2005: work in progress on the Hat tracing system for Haskell.

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Abstract

We outline two methods for locating bugs in a program. This is done by comparing computations of the same program with different input. At least one of these computations must produce a correct result, while exactly one must exhibit some erroneous behaviour. Firstly reductions that are thought highly likely to be correct are eliminated from the search for the bug. Secondly, a program slicing technique is used to identify areas of code that are likely to be correct. Both methods have been implemented. In combination with algorithmic debugging they provide a system that quickly and accurately identifies bugs.

Item Type:	Conference or workshop item (UNSPECIFIED)
Uncontrolled keywords:	Debugging, Tracing, Haskell, Hat
Subjects:	Q Science > QA Mathematics (inc Computing science) > QA 76 Software, computer programming,
Divisions:	Faculties > Science Technology and Medical Studies > School of Computing > Theoretical Computing Group
Depositing User:	Mark Wheadon
Date Deposited:	24 Nov 2008 18:02
Last Modified:	06 Sep 2011 01:27
Resource URI:	http://kar.kent.ac.uk/id/eprint/14245 (The current URI for this page, for reference purposes)

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