Whole Execution Traces and Their Use in Debugging
Xiangyu Zhang, Neelam Gupta, Rajiv Gupta · 2007
Profiling techniques have greatly advanced in recent years. Extensive amounts of dynamic information can be collected (e.g., control flow, address and data values, data, and control dependences), and sophisticated dynamic analysis techniques can be employed to assist in improving the performance and reliability of software. In this chapter we describe a novel representation called whole execution traces that can hold a vast amount of dynamic information in a form that provides easy access to this information during dynamic analysis. We demonstrate the use of this representation in locating faulty code in programs through dynamic-slicing- and dynamic-matching-based analysis of dynamic information generated by failing runs of faulty programs.