Algorithmic Debugging is a semi-automatic debugging technique that produces a dialogue between the debugger and the programmer to locate bugs. This technique relies on the programmer having a intended semantics of the program. In other words, some computations of the program are correct and others are wrong with respect to the semantics intended by the programmer.

Algorithmic debuggers shows the actual results of subcomputations and the programmer compares them with what he/she expected. Roughly speaking, the debugger discards parts of the source code associated with correct computations until it isolates a small part of the code (usually a routine). By asking questions to the programmer the system can identify precisely the location of a bug.

DDJ is a modern implementation of an algorithmic debugger for Java. It integrates many sophisticated strategies and transformations to

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