Locality-Based Online Trace Compression
IEEE Transactions on Computers
A survey of trace exploration tools and techniques
CASCON '04 Proceedings of the 2004 conference of the Centre for Advanced Studies on Collaborative research
The VPC Trace-Compression Algorithms
IEEE Transactions on Computers
On feature traceability in object oriented programs
TEFSE '05 Proceedings of the 3rd international workshop on Traceability in emerging forms of software engineering
An efficient single-pass trace compression technique utilizing instruction streams
ACM Transactions on Modeling and Computer Simulation (TOMACS)
Feature Identification: An Epidemiological Metaphor
IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering
An iterative, multi-level, and scalable approach to comparing execution traces
Proceedings of the the 6th joint meeting of the European software engineering conference and the ACM SIGSOFT symposium on The foundations of software engineering
An iterative, multi-level, and scalable approach to comparing execution traces
The 6th Joint Meeting on European software engineering conference and the ACM SIGSOFT symposium on the foundations of software engineering: companion papers
Proceedings of the 22nd annual ACM SIGPLAN conference on Object-oriented programming systems and applications
Using trace sampling techniques to identify dynamic clusters of classes
CASCON '07 Proceedings of the 2007 conference of the center for advanced studies on Collaborative research
Dynamic analysis of Ada programs for comprehension and quality measurement
Proceedings of the 2008 ACM annual international conference on SIGAda annual international conference
SIFT: a scalable iterative-unfolding technique for filtering execution traces
CASCON '08 Proceedings of the 2008 conference of the center for advanced studies on collaborative research: meeting of minds
Proceedings of the 2nd India software engineering conference
Abstraction of multiple executions of object-oriented programs
Proceedings of the 2009 ACM symposium on Applied Computing
EvoSpaces - Multi-dimensional Navigation Spaces for Software Evolution
Human Machine Interaction
Automatic generation of abstract views for legacy software comprehension
Proceedings of the 3rd India software engineering conference
International Journal of Automation and Computing
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Dynamic analysis consists of analyzing the behavior of a software system to extract its proprieties. There have been many studies that use dynamic information to extract high-level views of a software system or simply help software engineers to perform their daily maintenance activities more effectively. One of the biggest challenges that such tools face is to deal with very large execution traces. By analyzing the execution traces of the software systems we are working on, we noticed that they contain many redundancies that can beremoved. This led us to create a comprehension-driven compression framework that compresses the traces to make them more understandable. In this paper, we present and explain its components. The compression framework is reversible that is the original trace can be reconstructed from its compressed version. In addition to that, we conducted an experiment with the execution traces of two software systems to measure the gain attained by such compression.