Debugging of Wrong and Missing Answers in SPARQL✱
Jesús Manuel Almendros-Jiménez, Antonio Becerra-Terón · 2021
The debugging of database queries is a research topic of increasing interest in recent years. The Semantic Web query language SPARQL should be equipped with a debugger for helping users to detect bugs which usually cause empty results as well as wrong and missing answers. Declarative debugging is a well-known debugging method successfully used in other database query languages. In this paper we present the elements of a declarative debugger for SPARQL in which debugging is based on the construction of a debugging tree for a given answer, and the detection of buggy and failure nodes in the debugging tree causing empty results as well as wrong and missing answers. The debugger has been implemented and it is available as web tool.