Patent ID: 8458665

Claim:
A method of audiating an occurrence of a debugger events within a software debugger, the method comprising: assigning at least one sound characteristic to the debugger event occurring within the software debugger the assigning further comprising: monitoring an amount of time spent editing each module of a plurality of modules in a software program under debug; and automatically adjusting a volume of the at least one sound characteristic associated with each module of the plurality of modules during debug based on the amount of time spent editing each module of the plurality of modules; optimizing the audiation of the at least one sound characteristic associated with the debugger event to maximize performance of the software debugger, the optimizing further comprising: if a first sound hook is encountered during debug, determining an amount of time required to play the first sound hook; playing the first sound hook; and if a second sound hook is encountered during a time when the first sound hook is playing, pruning the playing of the second sound hook based on the amount of time required to play the first sound hook.