IGOR: a system for program debugging via reversible execution
PADD '88 Proceedings of the 1988 ACM SIGPLAN and SIGOPS workshop on Parallel and distributed debugging
Debugging with dynamic slicing and backtracking
Software—Practice & Experience
Coca: an automated debugger for C
Proceedings of the 21st international conference on Software engineering
Efficient algorithms for bidirectional debugging
PLDI '00 Proceedings of the ACM SIGPLAN 2000 conference on Programming language design and implementation
Generalized path expressions: A high level debugging mechanism (Preliminary Draft)
SIGSOFT '83 Proceedings of the ACM SIGSOFT/SIGPLAN software engineering symposium on High-level debugging
Relational queries over program traces
OOPSLA '05 Proceedings of the 20th annual ACM SIGPLAN conference on Object-oriented programming, systems, languages, and applications
Bugdel: An Aspect-Oriented Debugging System
APSEC '05 Proceedings of the 12th Asia-Pacific Software Engineering Conference
Debugging and testing middleware with aspect-based control-flow and causal patterns
Proceedings of the 9th ACM/IFIP/USENIX International Conference on Middleware
BPGen: an automated breakpoint generator for debugging
Proceedings of the 32nd ACM/IEEE International Conference on Software Engineering - Volume 2
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
Enhancing UML state machines with aspects
MODELS'07 Proceedings of the 10th international conference on Model Driven Engineering Languages and Systems
A pointcut language for setting advanced breakpoints
Proceedings of the 12th annual international conference on Aspect-oriented software development
Instance pointcuts for program comprehension
Proceedings of the 1st workshop on Comprehension of complex systems
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Modern source-level debuggers support dynamic breakpoints that are guarded by conditions based on program state. Such breakpoints address situations where a static breakpoint is not sufficiently precise to characterise a point of interest in program execution. However, we believe that current IDE support for dynamic breakpoints are cumbersome to use. Firstly, guard conditions formulated in (non-aspect-oriented) source-languages cannot directly express control-flow conditions, forcing developers to seek alternative formulations. Secondly, guard-conditions can be complex expressions and manually typing them is cumbersome.We present the Control-flow Breakpoint Debugger (CBD). CBD uses a dynamic pointcut language to characterise control-flow breakpoints---dynamic breakpoints which are conditional on the control-flow through which they were reached. CBD provides a "point-and-click" GUI to specify and incrementally refine control-flow breakpoints, thereby avoiding the burden of manually editing the potentially complex expressions that define them.We performed 20 case studies debugging and fixing documented bugs in 3 existing applications. Our results show that dynamic breakpoints in general are useful in practice, and that CBD's GUI allows specifying them adequately in the majority of cases.