Reflection as a Tool to Debug Objects
Steven Costiou, Vincent Aranega, Marcus Denker · 2022
In this paper, we share our experience with using reflection as a systematic tool to build advanced debuggers. We illustrate the usage and combination of reflection techniques for the implementation of object-centric debugging. Object-centric debugging is a technique for object-oriented systems that scopes debugging operations to specific objects. The implementation of this technique is not straightforward, as there are, to the best of our knowledge, no description in the literature about how to build such debugger.