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What constitutes debugging? Empirical findings from live-coding streams
- neprotivo 1y agoTLDR: * Debugging takes 35%-50% of a developer's time * In the study 79% of the time was spent on the top 26% of the bugs * Fresh bugs appearing during ongoing work take 3 minutes to fix on average. Committed bugs appearing in the issue tracker take 29 minutes on average * When running/testing during debugging sessions devs run the code manually (84%) rather than relying on automated tests * When inspecting program state devs rely on looking at logs and print statements 70% of the cases and in only 30% use a debugger