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GCSE Computer Science · key term
Facilities that help a programmer identify and investigate errors, such as error messages, highlighted locations and debugging tools.
Used by OCR
Paper 2
Revise: IDE Tools and FacilitiesThe four common tools are an editor, error diagnostics, a run-time environment and a translator. They work together: the editor is used to write the instructions, the translator makes those instructions executable, the run-time environment runs them, and error diagnostics help investigate problems.
Error diagnostics help locate and investigate errors, but do not guarantee that a program produces the correct result.
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