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In this article authors describe an approach to fostering debugging communities on the World-Wide Web, that will enable programmers to collaboratively debug programs synchronously and asynchronously. Over the past couple of years, a significant number of communities have benefited by interacting through the net using newsgroups and Webpages. To describe a bug, programmer needs to describe the code, the point in the execution where the symptom occurs, and the context. The article aims to make it easy for programmers to swap bug descriptions around the world. Therefore, system should be platform independent, run on relatively modest hardware, and should not require exchange of source code. Internet Software Visualization Laboratory (ISVL) is an approach to solving bug-description-sharing problem, which uses a client/server architecture to deliver visualizations any Java-enabled Web browser. Using a Java-enabled Web browser, programmers can connect to the ISVL client. Using the client, programmers can upload and run their programs on the server and receive back a visualization.
Domingue et al. (Tue,) studied this question.