Title :

Mercury: Properties and Design of a Remote Debugging Solution using Reflection

Author(s) :

Papoulias, Nick [Auteur]
Analyses and Languages Constructs for Object-Oriented Application Evolution [RMOD]
Bouraqadi, Noury [Auteur]
Centre for Digital Systems [CERI SN - IMT Nord Europe]
Fabresse, Luc [Auteur]
Centre for Digital Systems [CERI SN - IMT Nord Europe]
Ducasse, Stephane [Auteur]
Analyses and Languages Constructs for Object-Oriented Application Evolution [RMOD]
Denker, Marcus [Auteur]
Analyses and Languages Constructs for Object-Oriented Application Evolution [RMOD]

Journal title :

The Journal of Object Technology

Pages :

36

Publisher :

Chair of Software Engineering

Publication date :

2015-09-18

ISSN :

1660-1769

English keyword(s) :

Agile Development
Run-Time Evolution
Mirrors
Reflection
Remote Debugging
Se-mantic Instrumentation
Adaptable Distribution

HAL domain(s) :

Informatique [cs]/Langage de programmation [cs.PL]

English abstract : [en]

Remote debugging facilities are a technical necessity for devices that lack appropriate input/output interfaces (display, keyboard, mouse) for programming (e.g., smartphones, mobile robots) or are simply unreachable for ...
Show more >Remote debugging facilities are a technical necessity for devices that lack appropriate input/output interfaces (display, keyboard, mouse) for programming (e.g., smartphones, mobile robots) or are simply unreachable for local development (e.g., cloud-servers). Yet remote debugging solutions can prove awkward to use due to re-deployments. Empirical studies show us that on average 10.5 minutes per coding hour (over five 40-hour work weeks per year) are spent for redeploying applications (including re-deployments during debugging). Moreover current solutions lack facilities that would otherwise be available in a local setting because it is difficult to reproduce them remotely. Our work identifies three desirable properties that a remote debugging solution should exhibit, namely: run-time evolution, semantic instrumentation and adaptable distribution. Given these properties we propose and validate Mercury, a remote debugging model based on reflection. Mercury supports run-time evolution through a causally connected remote meta-level, semantic instrumentation through the reification of the underlying execution environment and adaptable distribution through a modular architecture of the debugging middleware.Show less >

Language :

Anglais

Peer reviewed article :

Oui

Audience :

Internationale

Popular science :

Non

Collections :

• Centre de Recherche en Informatique, Signal et Automatique de Lille (CRIStAL) - UMR 9189

Source :

Harvested from HAL