Designing OQL: allowing objects to be queried
Information Systems
Debugging with control-flow breakpoints
Proceedings of the 6th international conference on Aspect-oriented software development
Proceedings of the 22nd annual ACM SIGPLAN conference on Object-oriented programming systems and applications
Extending omniscient debugging to support aspect-oriented programming
Proceedings of the 2008 ACM symposium on Applied computing
Stateful breakpoints: a practical approach to defining parameterized runtime monitors
Proceedings of the 19th ACM SIGSOFT symposium and the 13th European conference on Foundations of software engineering
A pointcut language for setting advanced breakpoints
Proceedings of the 12th annual international conference on Aspect-oriented software development
The potential of omniscient debugging for aspect-oriented programming languages
Proceedings of the 1st workshop on Comprehension of complex systems
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The dynamic behavior of programs generally cannot be fully observed via the source code, but dynamic tools, e.g. debuggers, have to be used. Comprehending dynamic behavior entails observing object interactions during runtime. The class structure is not always sufficient to understand these interactions since objects of the same type can be used in various places, just as objects of different types can be used in similar places. Our novel concept, instance pointcuts, groups objects based on the events they participate in, introducing a flexible way of creating object categories; a category contains objects that are used in the specified way. This paper proposes an application of instance pointcuts to the program comprehension domain. We illustrate the usefulness of our approach through three comprehension scenarios.