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Title |
Back to the Future: Omniscient Debugging |
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Authors |
Guillaume Pothier, Éric Tanter |
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Publication date |
November 2009 |
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Abstract |
Debugging is a tedious and costly process that demands a profound understanding of the dynamic behavior of programs. An omniscient debugger makes the task of tracking down the root cause of bugs straightforward by enabling programmers to seamlessly navigate a buggy program's execution history. So why don't we all have an omniscient debugger in our favorite development environment? Are the challenges of making omniscient debugging practical a definitive barrier to its adoption? This article describes TOD, a scalable omniscient debugger for Java. TOD is integrated into the Eclipse IDE and paves the way for practical omniscient debugging. |
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Pages |
78-85 |
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Volume |
26 |
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Journal name |
IEEE Software |
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Publisher |
IEEE Press (Piscataway, NJ, USA) |
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