US researchers have unveiled details of a technique designed to speed up the
debugging of complex computer programs by automatically "chipping" the software
into smaller pieces.
Software engineers are then able to isolate and fix bugs without having to
trawl through the entire code base, according to researchers at the
University
of California Davis.
The boffins explained that, to isolate a bug in the code, programmers often
break it into smaller pieces until they can pin down the error in a smaller
stretch that is easier to manage.
The aim of the new project, conducted by UC Davis graduate student Chad
Sterling and professor of computer science Ron Olsson, was to automate this
process. "It is really tedious to go through thousands of lines of code," said
Olsson.
The Chipper tools developed by Sterling and Olsson chip off pieces of
software while preserving the program structure.
"The pieces have to work after they are cut down," explained Olsson. "You
cannot just cut in mid-sentence."
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