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Monitoring in a software development environment: A relational approach

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ACM SIGPLAN Notices, Volume 19, Issue 5

Pages 124 - 131

https://doi.org/10.1145/390011.808257

Published: 25 April 1984 Publication History

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A monitor is an important component of a software development environment. The information collected and processed by a monitor is vital for debugging and tuning programs, and is useful to compilers performing selective optimization. A relational database, extended to incorporate time, is introduced as an appropriate representation of dynamic information concerning a program's execution. TQuel, a language permitting high level queries about a program's behavior, is briefly described. Measurements of an initial implementation of the relational monitor show that it can efficiently support the conceptual viewpoint of a dynamic database of a program's behavior.

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ACM SIGPLAN Notices Volume 19, Issue 5

May 1984

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SDE 1: Proceedings of the first ACM SIGSOFT/SIGPLAN software engineering symposium on Practical software development environments
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