debugging

Turn up the Heat!: Using Heat Maps to Visualize Suspicious Code to Help Students Successfully Complete Programming Problems Faster

Automated grading systems provide feedback to students in a variety of ways, but they typically focus on identifying incorrect program behaviors. Such systems provide notices of test case failures or runtime errors, but without debugging skills, …

Experiences Using Heat Maps to Help Students Find Their Bugs: Problems and Solutions

Automated grading systems provide feedback to students in a variety of ways, but usually focus on identifying incorrect program behaviors. Such systems provide notices of test case failures or runtime errors, but without debugging skills, students …

Using Spectrum-Based Fault Location and Heatmaps to Express Debugging Suggestions to Student Programmers

Automated grading systems are useful for conveying debugging feedback to students, but the manner in which this feedback is displayed can be problematic for students. Automated systems usually report failures in student code, whether it be the …