Time-Traveling Debugging Queries: Faster Program Exploration

Willembrinck, Maximilian; Costiou, Steven; Etien, Anne; Ducasse, Stephane

Document type :

Communication dans un congrès avec actes

Title :

Time-Traveling Debugging Queries: Faster Program Exploration

Author(s) :

Willembrinck, Maximilian [Auteur]
Centre de Recherche en Informatique, Signal et Automatique de Lille - UMR 9189 [CRIStAL]
Analyses and Languages Constructs for Object-Oriented Application Evolution [RMOD]
Costiou, Steven [Auteur]
Centre de Recherche en Informatique, Signal et Automatique de Lille - UMR 9189 [CRIStAL]
Analyses and Languages Constructs for Object-Oriented Application Evolution [RMOD]
Etien, Anne [Auteur]

Centre de Recherche en Informatique, Signal et Automatique de Lille - UMR 9189 [CRIStAL]
Analyses and Languages Constructs for Object-Oriented Application Evolution [RMOD]
Ducasse, Stephane [Auteur]

Centre de Recherche en Informatique, Signal et Automatique de Lille - UMR 9189 [CRIStAL]
Analyses and Languages Constructs for Object-Oriented Application Evolution [RMOD]

Conference title :

International Conference on Software Quality, Reliability, and Security

City :

Hainan Island

Country :

Chine

Start date of the conference :

2021-12-06

HAL domain(s) :

Informatique [cs]/Langage de programmation [cs.PL]
Informatique [cs]/Génie logiciel [cs.SE]

English abstract : [en]

Efficiently debugging a program requires program comprehension. To acquire it, developers explore the program execution, a task often performed using interactive debuggers. Unfortunately, exploring a program execution ...
Show more >Efficiently debugging a program requires program comprehension. To acquire it, developers explore the program execution, a task often performed using interactive debuggers. Unfortunately, exploring a program execution through standard interactive debuggers is a tedious and costly task. In this paper, we propose Time-Traveling Queries (TTQs) to ease program exploration. TTQs is a mechanism that automatically explores program executions to collect execution data. This data is used to time-travel through execution states, facilitating the exploration of program executions. We built a set of key TTQs based on typical questions developers ask when trying to understand programs. We conducted a user study with 34 participants to evaluate the impact of our queries on program comprehension activities. Results show that, compared to traditional debugging tools, TTQs significantly improve developers' precision, while reducing required time and efforts when performing program comprehension tasks.Show less >

Language :

Anglais

Peer reviewed article :

Oui

Audience :

Internationale

Popular science :

Non

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