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Back to the Future: Omniscient Debugging

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Guillaume Pothier,

Éric TanterAuthors Info & Claims

IEEE Software, Volume 26, Issue 6

Pages 78 - 85

https://doi.org/10.1109/MS.2009.169

Published: 01 November 2009 Publication History

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Debugging is a tedious and costly process that demands a profound understanding of the dynamic behavior of programs. An omniscient debugger makes the task of tracking down the root cause of bugs straightforward by enabling programmers to seamlessly navigate a buggy program's execution history. So why don't we all have an omniscient debugger in our favorite development environment? Are the challenges of making omniscient debugging practical a definitive barrier to its adoption? This article describes TOD, a scalable omniscient debugger for Java. TOD is integrated into the Eclipse IDE and paves the way for practical omniscient debugging.

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IEEE Software Volume 26, Issue 6

November 2009

92 pages

ISSN:0740-7459

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