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2025 3 marks Short answer The Software Engineering Project (Year 12) Testing and debugging
NESA 2025 HSC Software Engineering exam (online) - Marking Guidelines
[Exact question wording is not published as a paper (online exam). Task as shown by the NESA marking guidelines/mapping grid: outline TWO software debugging tools (criteria wording: 'Outlines TWO relevant software debugging tools')]
Marking criteria
3: Outlines TWO relevant software debugging tools. 2: Outlines ONE tool, OR identifies TWO tools. 1: Some relevant information.
Sample answer
Breakpoints can be added to specific lines of code to halt program execution, allowing the programmer to check the value of specific variables or to step through the program line by line. Debugging output statements can be added to the code to indicate that a certain section of code has been reached or to show the contents of a variable.