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Description of Individual Course Units

Course Unit Code Course Unit Title Type Of Course D U L ECTS BIL 4125 SOFTWARE DEBUGGING ELECTIVE 2 2 0 5

Offered By

Computer Science

Level of Course Unit

First Cycle Programmes (Bachelor's Degree)

Course Coordinator

ASSISTANT PROFESSOR BARIŞ TEKIN TEZEL

Offered to

Computer Science

Course Objective

The goal of this course is to teach a number of techniques that allow participants to debug any program in a systematic.

Learning Outcomes of the Course Unit

1   Be able to reproduce failures. 2   Be able to isolate automatically what's relevant for the failure. 3   Be able to understand how failure come to be. 4   Be able to fix the program in the best possible way.

Mode of Delivery

Face -to- Face

Prerequisites and Co-requisites

None

Recomended Optional Programme Components

None

Course Contents

Week Subject Description 1 Introduction 2 Tracking Problems and b-Basic Testing Techniques 3 Reproducing and Simplifying Problems, Introduction to Delta Debugging 4 Scientific Debugging 5 Deduction Techniques 6 Observing Facts 7 Tracking Origins 8 Recap 9 Recap 10 Assertion Techniques 11 Detecting Anomalies 12 Causes and Effects - Isolating Failure Causes 13 Causes and Effects - Isolating Cause-Effect Chains 14 Fixing the Defect 15 Learning from Mistakes

Recomended or Required Reading

Textbook(s): 1. Zeller, Andreas. Why programs fail: a guide to systematic debugging. Elsevier, 2009. 2. Matloff, Norman S., and Peter Jay Salzman. The art of debugging with GDB, DDD, and Eclipse. No Starch Press, 2008. Supplemantory Book: 1. Sommerville, Ian. Software engineering. Addison-Wesley/Pearson, 2011.

Planned Learning Activities and Teaching Methods

The course is taught in a lecture, class presentation and discussion format.

Assessment Methods

SORTING NUMBER SHORT CODE LONG CODE FORMULA 1 ASG ASSIGNMENT 2 FIN FINAL EXAM 3 FCGR FINAL COURSE GRADE (RESIT) ASG * 0.40 + FIN * 0.60 4 RST RESIT 5 FCGR FINAL COURSE GRADE (RESIT) ASG * 0.40 + RST * 0.60

Further Notes About Assessment Methods

None

Assessment Criteria

To be announced.

Language of Instruction

Turkish

Course Policies and Rules

To be announced.

Contact Details for the Lecturer(s)

mete.eminagaoglu@deu.edu.tr

Office Hours

To be announced.

Work Placement(s)

None

Workload Calculation

Activities Number Time (hours) Total Work Load (hours) Lectures 14 2 28 Tutorials 14 2 28 Preparations before/after weekly lectures 13 3 39 Preparation for midterm exam 1 8 8 Preparation for final exam 1 10 10 Final 1 2 2 Midterm 1 2 2 TOTAL WORKLOAD (hours) 117

Contribution of Learning Outcomes to Programme Outcomes

PO/LO PO.1 PO.2 PO.3 PO.4 PO.5 PO.6 PO.7 PO.8 PO.9 PO.10 PO.11 PO.12 PO.13 LO.1 3 4 LO.2 3 4 LO.3 3 4 LO.4 3 4