A lightweight approach for program analysis and debugging

ISEC'10 - Proceedings of the 2010 India Software Engineering Conference

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 13-22

  Rakesh, M G ^a,b  

^a INTERNATIONAL INSTITUTE OF INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY   (India)

^b SAP LABS INDIA PVT LTD   (India)

Author keywords

Java debugger using aspects and slicing; JDAS; Line number pointcuts; Selective tracing

Indexed keywords

DEBUGGERS; DYNAMIC ASPECTS; HYBRID APPROACH; PERFORMANCE PARAMETERS; POINT CUT; PROGRAM ANALYSIS; PROGRAM SLICING; RUNTIME COSTS; RUNTIME OVERHEADS; STATIC SLICING;

COMPUTER SOFTWARE; COMPUTER SYSTEMS PROGRAMMING;

PROGRAM DEBUGGING;

EID: 77951447358     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1730874.1730880     Document Type: Conference Paper

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