debuggern.
/ˌdiːˈbʌɡə/, U.S. /ˌdiˈbəɡər/ Computing.
1. A person who checks for and corrects errors in computer programs.
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1962 J. W. Friedman & H. G. Rice Fund. Electronic Data Processing xi. 485/1 The checking of a completed program for errors is made much more difficult when the debugger has first to familiarize himself with the individual programming techniques used by one or more of the coders.
1981 IEEE Spectrum Sept. 55/1 The debuggers were likely to be more careful than technicians with no emotional stake in Eagle.
1996 K. Hafner & M. Lyon Where Wizards stay Up Late (1998) iii. 95 Cosell was a debugger par excellence, someone who could go poking around in a computer program he had never seen before and in two days fix a problem that had gone unsolved for weeks.
2. A program designed to assist in the detection and correction of errors in other computer programs, software, etc.
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society > computing and information technology > programming language > program or code > [noun] > testing > software to assist
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1964 Communications ACM 7 526/2 He may request assignment of in/out devices and obtain the services of a program loader, program editor, assembly program or debugger according to his need.
1969 W. H. Josephs On-Line Debugger for O/S 360 Assembly Lang. Programs (RAND Rep. No. RM 6027 ARPA) 1 An on-line symbolic debugger can be invaluable.
1983 Pop. Computing Nov. 70 A debugger allows you to..set breakpoints in the program being tested where control returns to the debugger.
2010 R. Pratap Getting Started Matlab ix. 250 Matlab supports a built-in debugger.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2017; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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