different between debuggability vs debuggable

English

Etymology

From debug +? -ability

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /di??b????b?l?ti/, /di??b????b?l?ti/

Noun

debuggability (uncountable)

1. (uncountable) The quality of being debuggable; capability of being (easily) debugged.
2. (countable) The extent to which something can be debugged.

English

Etymology

debug +? -able

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): [di??b???b??], [di??b???b??]

Adjective

debuggable (not comparable)

1. (computing) That can be debugged.
   • 1997, Robin Burk, David B Horvath, UNIX Unleashed: Internet Edition

     If the output shows a space name $DEBUG$, the program was compiled as debuggable with the -g option.

   • 2001, Robert D Kent, Todd W Sands, High Performance Computing Systems and Applications

     In an attempt to detect the problem closer to where it happened, our experts tried to replace the standard malloc with a debuggable version...

2. (computing) Easy or convenient to debug.
   • 2005, Kathy Sierra, Bert Bates, Head First Java

     Your Java programs will be more debuggable and expandable if you use local variables instead of instance variables...

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