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Cheng, Yung-Pin; Chen, Jih-Feng; Chiu, Ming‐Chih; Lai, Nien-Wei; Tseng, Chien-Chih

doi:10.1145/1449814.1449869

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“…jGRASP supports the visualization of various data structure by means of dynamic viewers and a structure identifier that automatically select suitable views for data structures [77]. x DIVA is a 3-D debugging visualization system where complex visualization metaphors are assembled from individual ones, each of which is independently replaceable [78].…”

Section: User Interfaces For Debuggingmentioning

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Practical domain-specific debuggers using the Moldable Debugger framework

Chiș

Denker

Nierstrasz

2015

Computer Languages, Systems & Structures

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Understanding the run-time behaviour of software systems can be a challenging activity. Debuggers are an essential category of tools used for this purpose as they give developers direct access to the running systems. Nevertheless, traditional debuggers rely on generic mechanisms to introspect and interact with the running systems, while developers reason about and formulate domain-specific questions using concepts and abstractions from their application domains. This mismatch creates an abstraction gap between the debugging needs and the debugging support leading to an inefficient and error-prone debugging effort, as developers need to recover concrete domain concepts using generic mechanisms. To reduce this gap, and increase the efficiency of the debugging process, we propose a framework for developing domain-specific debuggers, called the Moldable Debugger, that enables debugging at the level of the application domain. The Moldable Debugger is adapted to a domain by creating and combining domain-specific debugging operations with domain-specific debugging views, and adapts itself to a domain by selecting, at run time, appropriate debugging operations and views. To ensure the proposed model has practical applicability (i.e., can be used in practice to build real debuggers), we discuss, from both a performance and usability point of view, three implementation strategies. We further motivate the need for domain-specific debugging, identify a set of key requirements and show how our approach improves debugging by adapting the debugger to several domains.

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Section: User Interfaces For Debuggingmentioning

confidence: 99%

Practical domain-specific debuggers using the Moldable Debugger framework

Chiș

Denker

Nierstrasz

2015

Computer Languages, Systems & Structures

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“…x DIVA is a 3-D debugging visualization system where complex visualization metaphors are assembled from individual ones, each of which is independently replaceable [47]. While these approaches allow users to create visualizations specific to their domains they are meant to be embedded within existent debuggers, and thus do not offer debugging operations.…”

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The Moldable Debugger: A Framework for Developing Domain-Specific Debuggers

Chiș

Gîrba²,

Nierstrasz

2014

Software Language Engineering

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Abstract. Debuggers are crucial tools for developing object-oriented software systems as they give developers direct access to the running systems. Nevertheless, traditional debuggers rely on generic mechanisms to explore and exhibit the execution stack and system state, while developers reason about and formulate domain-specific questions using concepts and abstractions from their application domains. This creates an abstraction gap between the debugging needs and the debugging support leading to an inefficient and error-prone debugging effort. To reduce this gap, we propose a framework for developing domain-specific debuggers called the Moldable Debugger. The Moldable Debugger is adapted to a domain by creating and combining domain-specific debugging operations with domain-specific debugging views, and adapts itself to a domain by selecting, at run time, appropriate debugging operations and views. We motivate the need for domain-specific debugging, identify a set of key requirements and show how our approach improves debugging by adapting the debugger to several domains.

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Executable Program Documentation Based on Debugging Break Points

Cheng

Chen

2013

2013 20th Asia-Pacific Software Engineering Conference (APSEC)

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xDIVA

Cited by 8 publications

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Practical domain-specific debuggers using the Moldable Debugger framework

Practical domain-specific debuggers using the Moldable Debugger framework

The Moldable Debugger: A Framework for Developing Domain-Specific Debuggers

Executable Program Documentation Based on Debugging Break Points

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