Mercury: a Model for Live Remote Debugging in Reflective Languages

Papoulias, Nikolaos; Bouraqadi, Noury; Fabresse, Luc; Ducasse, Stephane; Denker, Marcus

Type de document :

Pré-publication ou Document de travail

Titre :

Mercury: a Model for Live Remote Debugging in Reflective Languages

Auteur(s) :

Papoulias, Nikolaos [Auteur correspondant]
Analyses and Languages Constructs for Object-Oriented Application Evolution [RMOD]
Bouraqadi, Noury [Auteur]
Fabresse, Luc [Auteur]
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]

Discipline(s) HAL :

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

Résumé en anglais : [en]

Remote debugging facilities are a technical necessity for devices that have limited computing power to run an IDE (e.g., smartphones), lack appropriate input/output interfaces (display, keyboard, mouse) for programming ...
Lire la suite >Remote debugging facilities are a technical necessity for devices that have limited computing power to run an IDE (e.g., smartphones), lack appropriate input/output interfaces (display, keyboard, mouse) for programming (e.g mobile robots) or are simply unreachable for local development (e.g cloud-servers). Yet remote debugging solutions can prove awkward to use due to their distributed nature. Empirical studies show us that on average 10.5 minutes per coding hour (over five 40-hour work weeks per year) are spend for re-deploying applications while fixing bugs or improving functionality. Moreover current solutions lack facilities that would otherwise be available in a local setting because its difficult to reproduce them remotely. Our work identifies three desirable properties that an ideal solution for remote debugging should exhibit, namely: run-time evolution, semantic instrumentation and adaptable distribution. Given these properties we propose and validate Mercury, a live remote debugging model and architecture for reflective OO languages.Lire moins >

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Anglais

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