[Publications] [Software Engineering Research Group] [Department of Computer Science] [University of British Columbia]
Efficient Mapping of Software System Traces to Architectural Views
Robert J. Walker,
Gail C. Murphy,
Jeffrey Steinbok, and
Martin P. Robillard
In Stephen A. MacKay and J Howard Johnson, editors, Proceedings of
CASCON 2000 (Mississauga,
Ontario, Canada; 13--16 November), pp. 31--40, 2000.
Abstract
Information about a software system's execution can help a
developer with many tasks, including software testing, performance
tuning, and program understanding. In almost all cases, this dynamic
information is reported in terms of source-level constructs, such as
procedures and methods. For some software engineering tasks,
source-level information is not optimal because there is a wide gap
between the information presented (i.e., procedures) and the concepts
of interest to the software developer (i.e., subsystems). One way to
close this gap is to allow developers to investigate the execution
information in terms of a higher-level, typically architectural, view.
In this paper, we present an encoding technique for dynamic trace
information that makes it tractable and efficient to manipulate a
trace from a variety of different architecture-level viewpoints. To
motivate the need for the encoding technique, we describe two tools
that use the technique: a visualization tool and a path query tool.
We present the encoding technique to enable the development of
additional tools that manipulate dynamic information at a higher-level
than source.
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