Editing Debugger (section)

=== Record and replay debugging ===
[[Record and replay debugging]],<ref>{{cite arXiv |first1=Robert |last1=O'Callahan |first2=Chris |last2=Jones |first3=Nathan |last3=Froyd |first4=Kyle |last4=Huey |first5=Albert |last5=Noll |first6=Nimrod |last6=Partush |title=Engineering Record And Replay For Deployability Extended Technical Report |year=2017 |class=cs.PL |eprint=1705.05937 }}</ref> also known as "software flight recording" or "program execution recording", captures application state changes and stores them to disk as each instruction in a program executes. The recording can then be replayed over and over, and interactively debugged to diagnose and resolve defects. Record and replay debugging is very useful for remote debugging and for resolving intermittent, non-deterministic, and other hard-to-reproduce defects.