Extending omniscient debugging to support aspect-oriented programming

Authors:
Guillaume Pothier;Éric Tanter
Affiliations:
University of Chile - Santiago, Chile;University of Chile - Santiago, Chile
Venue:
Proceedings of the 2008 ACM symposium on Applied computing
Year:
2008

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Abstract

Debugging is a tedious and costly process that demands a profound understanding of the dynamic behavior of programs. Debugging aspect-oriented software is even more difficult: to implement the semantics of aspects, a number of implicit activities are performed, whose relation to source code is less direct to grasp. We show how omniscient debugging, a technique that consists in recording the activity of a program to later navigate in its history, can be extended to suit the particularities of aspect-oriented software. By enhancing program understandability, improvements to the tooling associated with aspect orientation will encourage the widespread acceptance of this emerging paradigm.