Comparison of debuggers

This is a list of Debuggers: computer programs that are used to test and debug other programs.

Many more to be sorted

• AppPuncher Debugger — for debugging Rich Internet Applications
• AQtime
• ARM Development Studio 5 (DS-5)
• CA/EZTEST — was a CICS interactive test/debug software package
• CodeView
• DBG — a PHP Debugger and Profiler
• dbx
• Distributed Debugging Tool (Allinea DDT)
• DDTLite — Allinea DDTLite for Visual Studio 2008
• DEBUG — the built-in debugger of DOS and Microsoft Windows
• Opera Dragonfly
• Dynamic debugging technique (DDT), and its octal counterpart Octal Debugging Technique
• Eclipse
• Embedded System Debug Plug-in for Eclipse
• FusionDebug
• Insight
• Parasoft Insure++
• iSYSTEM — in-circuit debugger for embedded systems
• Interactive Disassembler (IDA Pro)
• Java Platform Debugger Architecture
• Jinx — a whole-system debugger for heisenbugs. It works transparently as a device driver.
• JSwat — open-source Java debugger
• MacsBug
• Nemiver — graphical C/C++ debugger for the GNOME desktop environment
• OLIVER (CICS interactive test/debug) - a GUI equipped instruction set simulator (ISS)
• OllyDbg
• Omniscient Debugger — Forward and backward debugger for Java
• pgdbg — parallel graphical symbolic debugger for C/C++/Fortran on Linux/Windows/Mac developed by The Portland Group
• IBM Rational Purify
• RealView Debugger — Commercial debugger produced for and designed by ARM
• sdb
• SIMMON (Simulation Monitor)
• SIMON (Batch Interactive test/debug) — a GUI equipped instruction set simulator (ISS) for batch
• SoftICE
• TimeMachine — Forward and backward debugger designed by Green Hills Software
• TotalView
• Lauterbach TRACE32 — in-circuit debugger for embedded Systems
• Turbo Debugger
• Ups — C, Fortran source level debugger
• Valgrind
• VB Watch Debugger — debugger for Visual Basic 6.0
• Microsoft Visual Studio Debugger
• WinDbg
• Xdebug — PHP debugger and profiler

List of debugger front-ends

• Many Eclipse perspectives, e.g. the Java Development Tools (JDT) [1], provide a debugger front-end.
• DDD is the standard front-end from the GNU Project. It is a complex tool that works with most common debuggers (GDB, jdb, Python debugger, Perl debugger, Tcl, and others) natively or with some external programs (for PHP).
• GDB (the GNU debugger) GUI
  • Emacs — Emacs editor with built-in support for the GNU Debugger acts as the frontend.
  • KDbg — Part of the KDE development tools.
  • Nemiver — A GDB frontend that integrates well in the GNOME desktop environment.
  • xxgdb — X-window frontend for GDB and dbx debugger.
  • Qt Creator — multi-platform frontend for GDB and CDB (debugging example).
  • cgdb — ncurses terminal program that mimics vim key mapping.
  • ccdebug— A graphical GDB frontend using the Qt toolkit.
  • Padb — has a parallel front-end to GDB allowing it to target parallel applications.
  • Allinea's DDT — a parallel and distributed front-end to a modified version of GDB.
  • Xcode — contains a GDB front-end as well.
  • SlickEdit — contains a GDB front-end as well.
  • Eclipse C/C++ Development Tools (CDT) [2] — includes visual debugging tools based on GDB.