Snapshot Query-Based Debugging

Authors:
Alex Potanin;James Noble;Robert Biddle
Affiliations:
-;-;-
Venue:
ASWEC '04 Proceedings of the 2004 Australian Software Engineering Conference
Year:
2004

Citing 0
Cited 12

Generic ownership: practical ownership control in programming languages

OOPSLA '04 Companion to the 19th annual ACM SIGPLAN conference on Object-oriented programming systems, languages, and applications
Methodology and architecture of JIVE

SoftVis '05 Proceedings of the 2005 ACM symposium on Software visualization
Debugging reinvented: asking and answering why and why not questions about program behavior

Proceedings of the 30th international conference on Software engineering
Efficient runtime invariant checking: a framework and case study

WODA '08 Proceedings of the 2008 international workshop on dynamic analysis: held in conjunction with the ACM SIGSOFT International Symposium on Software Testing and Analysis (ISSTA 2008)
Practical Object-Oriented Back-in-Time Debugging

ECOOP '08 Proceedings of the 22nd European conference on Object-Oriented Programming
Caching and incrementalisation in the java query language

Proceedings of the 23rd ACM SIGPLAN conference on Object-oriented programming systems languages and applications
Visualizing the Java heap

Proceedings of the 32nd ACM/IEEE International Conference on Software Engineering - Volume 2
Extracting and answering why and why not questions about Java program output

ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology (TOSEM)
Efficient object querying for java

ECOOP'06 Proceedings of the 20th European conference on Object-Oriented Programming
The runtime structure of object ownership

ECOOP'06 Proceedings of the 20th European conference on Object-Oriented Programming
Object-centric debugging

Proceedings of the 34th International Conference on Software Engineering
Towards a moldable debugger

Proceedings of the 7th Workshop on Dynamic Languages and Applications

Quantified Score

Hi-index	0.01

Visualization

Abstract

Object-oriented programs, when executed, produce acomplex webs of objects and references between them, generallyreferred to as object graphs. These object graphs aredifficult to design correctly and even more difficult to debugif incorrect. Unfortunately, very subtle bugs in object-orientedprograms are directly caused by object graphtopologies. Snapshot query-based debuggers let programmersexamine object graph snapshots of programs in detailusing a specially designed query language. This providesusers with an ability to debug and examine their programsin great detail at the time when the memory snapshot istaken.