Pith Number

pith:2XEV6KQD

pith:2026:2XEV6KQDBIHRI6UDPBDGJ233GO

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A Grounded Theory of Debugging in Professional Software Engineering Practice

Haolin Li, Michael Coblenz

arxiv:2602.11435 v1 · 2026-02-11 · cs.SE

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{2XEV6KQDBIHRI6UDPBDGJ233GO}

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4 Citations open

5 Replications open

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The bundle contains the canonical record plus signed events. A mirror can host it anywhere and recompute the same current state with the deterministic merge algorithm.

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2 papers in Pith

From Program Slices to Causal Clarity: Evaluating Faithful, Actionable LLM-Generated Failure Explanations via Context Partitioning and LLM-as-a-Judge

Receipt and verification

First computed	2026-06-23T02:13:21.023037Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

d5c95f2a030a0f147a83784664eb7b338ae12b7d347f9eed5d161eedb0df4d89

Aliases

arxiv: 2602.11435 · arxiv_version: 2602.11435v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2602.11435 · pith_short_12: 2XEV6KQDBIHR · pith_short_16: 2XEV6KQDBIHRI6UD · pith_short_8: 2XEV6KQD

Agent API

Resolver JSON Graph JSON Events JSON Schema Signing key

Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/2XEV6KQDBIHRI6UDPBDGJ233GO \
  | jq -c '.canonical_record' \
  | python3 -c "import sys,json,hashlib; b=json.dumps(json.loads(sys.stdin.read()), sort_keys=True, separators=(',',':'), ensure_ascii=False).encode(); print(hashlib.sha256(b).hexdigest())"
# expect: d5c95f2a030a0f147a83784664eb7b338ae12b7d347f9eed5d161eedb0df4d89

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "0ed4f89130f9a2f93a3c345cd05053c0fd26d92f97bef9de19a00b5669c4d5a9",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.SE",
    "submitted_at": "2026-02-11T23:19:45Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "45abef6547ac36e924c141b2275f81a0a9619071822d4520d497333252a28e50"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2602.11435",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}