VIDA: Visual interactive debugging

Dan Hao, Lingming Zhang, Lu Zhang, Jiasu Sun, Hong Mei

DOI 10.1109/icse.2009.5070561 dblp

Abstract

Software debugging is time-consuming and effort-consuming. Although software debugging, especially fault-localization, has been studied for long, few practical debugging tools have been developed and used by the industry. In this paper we present VIDA, a visual interactive debugging tool, which has been integrated with the Eclipse Integrated Development Environment to support a programmer's debugging process. During the programmer's conventional debugging process, VIDA continuously recommends break-points for the programmer based on the analysis of execution information and the gathered feedback from the programmer. Moreover, VIDA provides a program outline to help the programmer choose breakpoints and visualizes the static dependency relation to help the programmer make estimation at breakpoints.

BibTeX

@inproceedings{Hao-al:ICSE09,
  author    = {Dan Hao and
               Lingming Zhang and
               Lu Zhang and
               Jiasu Sun and
               Hong Mei},
  title     = {{VIDA:} Visual interactive debugging},
  booktitle = {ICSE},
  pages     = {583--586},
  publisher = {{IEEE}},
  year      = {2009},
}

VIDA: Visual interactive debugging

Abstract

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