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Debugging

• Trying to quantify or measure debugging seems incredibly hard.
  • First attempt, relying on information theory: https://twitter.com/kunalbhalla/status/1497610926803107853
  • This works intuitively, but doesn't seem meaningfully automatable.
• Papers I was pointed to
  • Test suite diagnosability metric: https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/7985702
  • Amy J. Ko
    • https://faculty.washington.edu/ajko/papers/Ko2004Whyline.pdf
• Designing the Whyline
  • Lifecycle
    • Hypothesis
    • Observation
    • Restructuring data
    • Exploring restructured data
    • Diagnosis
    • Repairing

— Kunal