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Debugging in 2021: Trends for the Next Decade

  • Increased complexity of software will bring more methods from biological, social sciences and humanities in addition to existing methods of automated debugging and computer science techniques
  • Focus on first fault software problem solving (when aspect)
  • Focus on pattern-driven software problem solving (how aspect)
  • Fusion of debugging and malware analysis into a unified structural and behavioral pattern framework
  • Visual debugging, memory and software trace visualization techniques
  • Software maintenance certification
  • Focus on domain-driven troubleshooting and debugging tools as a service (debugware TaaS)
  • Focus on security issues related to memory dumps and software traces
  • New scripting languages and programming language extensions for debugging
  • The maturation of the science of memory snapshots and software traces (memoretics)