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Jul 23, 1996

An Experiment to Observe Debugging Process by Using an Eye Tracking Device

Technical report of IEICE. SS
  • MONDEN Akito
  • ,
  • TAKADA Yoshihiro
  • ,
  • TORII Koji

Volume
96
Number
172
First page
1
Last page
8
Language
Japanese
Publishing type
Publisher
The Institute of Electronics, Information and Communication Engineers

To clarify factors that affect efficiency of debugging, we need to investigate programers' intentions which continuously vary during. For the purpose, we have developed a system for observing programmers behavior by using an eye tracking device and audio and visual devices. By using the system, we have performed an experiment of observing bug identification processes. This paper presents results of the experiment,including the fact that collecting and analyzing multimodal data, such as motion of gazing point and record of verbal protocol, is effective in investigating programmers' intentions. It also includes several differences among observed processes which are likely to relate to the efficiency of bug identification.

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