Debugging of Programs

This bachelor thesis should be used as a study material for students of introductory courses of programming 4IT101 - Introduction to Programming and 4IT115 - Fundamentals of Software Engineering at the University of Economics, Prague. Whole thesis is about debugging. Theoretical part explains how bugs occur in source code and how to categorize, find and fix them. Several techniques of debugging are introduced with special concern for debuggers, which are essential tools for debugging and nowadays, they're integrated in practically every development environment. Theoretical part can be used as an introduction to debugging issues and it should be useful for students of both courses mentioned above. Practical part of this thesis focuses on description of debuggers in development environments BlueJ and NetBeans. Acquired knowledge should be useful also for programmers using Eclipse because its debugger works similarly. This part can be used as a handbook that helps students and beginners to quickly start using this strong and useful tool