Task time lines as a debugging tool

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Task time lines as a debugging tool

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ACM SIGAda Ada Letters archive
Volume XVI , Issue 2 (March/April 1996) table of contents

Pages: 50 - 69

Year of Publication: 1996

ISSN:1094-3641

Authors

J. S. Briggs	Department of Information Science, University of Portsmouth, Southsea, Hants, UK
S. D. Jamieson	Department of Computer Science, University of Durham
G. W. Randall	Programming Research Group, Oxford University
I. C. Wand	Department of Computer Science, University of York

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ACM New York, NY, USA

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ABSTRACT

Debugging distributed programs is more difficult than debugging sequential ones. This paper describes a means of making this easier by presenting the user with a "time line" view of an Ada program. Each time line shows the successive states of an Ada task as easily recognisable symbols on a time axis. Communication and sychronisation between tasks is shown graphically by lines connecting the time lines. The paper shows how this representation can be used to depict typical Ada tasking activity, and describes a tool that provides a useful interface to the representation.

CITED BY

Andrew J. Ko , Brad A. Myers, Designing the whyline: a debugging interface for asking questions about program behavior, Proceedings of the SIGCHI conference on Human factors in computing systems, p.151-158, April 24-29, 2004, Vienna, Austria

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Primary Classification:
D. Software
D.3 PROGRAMMING LANGUAGES
D.3.2 Language Classifications

Nouns: Ada