a program that helps in locating and correcting programming errors
"After hours of frustration, I finally connected my debugger to find the syntax error causing the app to crash."
A computer program that helps the user to test and debug other programs, by enabling their step-by-step execution controlled by the user, setting of breakpoints, and monitoring values of variables.
"The senior developer installed a new debugger on her machine so she could pause the crashing application at every line and inspect the variable values in real time."