BPGen an automated breakpoint generator for debugging

During debugging processes, breakpoints are frequently used to inspect and understand runtime behaviors of programs. Although most development environments offer convenient breakpoint facilities, the use of these environments usually requires considerable human efforts in order to generate useful br...

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Published in2010 ACM/IEEE 32nd International Conference on Software Engineering Vol. 2; pp. 271 - 274
Main Authors Zhang, Cheng, Yan, Dacong, Zhao, Jianjun, Chen, Yuting, Yang, Shengqian
Format Conference Proceeding
LanguageEnglish
Published New York, NY, USA ACM 01.05.2010
IEEE
SeriesACM Conferences
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breakpoint
Conferences
Debugging
Java
Nearest neighbor searches
Runtime
Software
Software and its engineering > Software creation and management > Software verification and validation > Software defect analysis > Software testing and debugging
debugging
breakpoint
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Summary:During debugging processes, breakpoints are frequently used to inspect and understand runtime behaviors of programs. Although most development environments offer convenient breakpoint facilities, the use of these environments usually requires considerable human efforts in order to generate useful breakpoints. Before setting breakpoints or typing breakpoint conditions, developers usually have to make some judgements and hypotheses on the basis of their observations and experience. To reduce this kind of efforts we present a tool, named BPGen, to automatically generate breakpoints for debugging. BPGen uses three well-known dynamic fault localization techniques in tandem to identify suspicious program statements and states, through which both conditional and unconditional breakpoints are generated. BPGen is implemented as an Eclipse plugin for supplementing the existing Eclipse JDT debugger.
ISBN:9781605587196
1605587192
ISSN:0270-5257
1558-1225
DOI:10.1145/1810295.1810351