The Bright Future of Debuggers: Challenges and Opportunities (Invited Talk)
Christophe Scholliers · 2023
Since the first bug was discovered in the Mark Harvard II electromechanical computer it was clear that finding bugs and debugging of computer systems would be an extremely challenging task. Today, various reports indicated that programmers spend approximately 50% of their time on debugging related tasks resulting in an annual cost of $312 billion. Given these astronomical amounts of resources being put into debugging, any technique that improves debugging efficiency is tremendously valuable.