A thread-aware debugger with an open interface

Proceedings of the ACM SIGSOFT 2000 International Symposium on Software Testing and Analysis

Volumn , Issue , 2000, Pages 201-211

  Schulz, Daniel ^a   Mueller, Frank ^b  

^a Qcentic GmbH   (Germany)

^b HUMBOLDT UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Active Debugging; Concurrency; Debugging; Open Interface; Threads

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER PROGRAM LISTINGS; INTERFACES (COMPUTER); STANDARDIZATION; STORAGE ALLOCATION (COMPUTER);

PARALLEL PROGRAMMING;

SOFTWARE ENGINEERING;

EID: 0034593044     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/347324.349141     Document Type: Conference Paper

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