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VR-DeltaDebugging: Visualization Support for Delta Debugging in Virtual Reality

Authors:
Roy Oberhauser

Keywords: delta debugging; visualization; virtual reality; debugging; software engineering

Abstract:
Debugging is a challenging activity involved in software development and maintenance processes. Delta Debugging (DD) is an automatic debugging algorithm and methodology that applies a scientific recurrent hypothesis, trial, and result loop to systematically reduce failure-inducing inputs to a minimal set. Yet, especially for larger (structured) input sets, how DD arrived at its results and its intermediate inputs and test results may not be intuitively evident to practitioners. This paper contributes our solution concept VR-DeltaDebugging for an immersive visualization in Virtual Reality to support comprehension, analysis, and collaboration. A prototype demonstrates its feasibility, and a cased-based evaluation on execution, comprehension and analysis, and scalability provides insights into its capabilities and potential.

Pages: 72 to 77

Copyright: Copyright (c) IARIA, 2025

Publication date: September 28, 2025

Published in: conference

ISSN: 2308-4235

ISBN: 978-1-68558-296-8

Location: Lisbon, Portugal

Dates: from September 28, 2025 to October 2, 2025