Aleksandr Polovtcev
ABSTRACT
Modern software systems are developed as very complex, heavily parallelized programs. Communication between multiple processes and threads inevitably leads to exponential growth of program state space and nondetermined program behaviour. These facts make standard error detection techniques, such as testing or static analysis, ineffective when applied to parallel programs. One way to solve the error detection problem is dynamic software visualization. In this paper we propose an approach, based on program trace analysis and vizualization. Our prototype allows building program trace logs using code instrumentation and supports 3 visualization types. Experimental results prove that proposed approch is effective and applicable to wide spectrum of software systems.
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Index Terms
- Visualization of parallel program execution for software behavior analysis and defect detection
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