Pith Number

pith:QW3JB4MX

pith:2025:QW3JB4MXOS2VUV6KHCUEO3TGDS

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How Developers Choose Debugging Strategies for Challenging Web Application Defects

Jenny T. Liang, Maryam Arab, Thomas D. LaToza, Valentina Hong

arxiv:2501.11792 v1 · 2025-01-20 · cs.HC · cs.SE

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{QW3JB4MXOS2VUV6KHCUEO3TGDS}

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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.

Receipt and verification

First computed	2026-07-05T10:03:13.881562Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

85b690f19774b55a57ca38a8476e661c9922db7a86aa4eb66a930fb5e8206b2e

Aliases

arxiv: 2501.11792 · arxiv_version: 2501.11792v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2501.11792 · pith_short_12: QW3JB4MXOS2V · pith_short_16: QW3JB4MXOS2VUV6K · pith_short_8: QW3JB4MX

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Resolver JSON Graph JSON Events JSON Schema Signing key

Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/QW3JB4MXOS2VUV6KHCUEO3TGDS \
  | 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: 85b690f19774b55a57ca38a8476e661c9922db7a86aa4eb66a930fb5e8206b2e

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "787e138d09a565767faa538b70654ddfdebb145f770a14932d11f0bc539cafc9",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.SE"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.HC",
    "submitted_at": "2025-01-20T23:43:36Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "10f54a67c1efa77224d5da967e339b68b94dabd3ab5960751465b1099304316e"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2501.11792",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}