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Finding Two participants completely ignored debugger toolbar during the study and used solely the debug menu or shortcuts for all actions including stepping. One participant didn't use the toolbar during task #2, but he used it for the next tasks. Severity This finding is an indication we might consider changing the debugger toolbar behavior. But we need to make sure that the new behavior is also tested. Recommendation Consider other ways of showing the debug toolbar.
It would be nice to know whether they were new NB users. I am setting TM to future since changes of this must be carefully considered IMHO.
Will be considered during debugger redesign planned for next (post-NB 6) release.