Title :
Visualization of Concurrent Program Executions
Author :
Artho, Cyrille ; Havelund, Klaus ; Honiden, Shinichi
Author_Institution :
AIST, Tokyo
Abstract :
Various program analysis techniques are efficient at discovering failures and properties. However, it is often difficult to evaluate results, such as program traces. This calls for abstraction and visualization tools. We propose an approach based on UML sequence diagrams, addressing shortcomings of such diagrams for concurrency. The resulting visualization is expressive and provides all the necessary information at a glance.
Keywords :
Unified Modeling Language; concurrency control; program diagnostics; program visualisation; UML sequence diagram; abstraction-visualization tool; concurrent program execution; program analysis; program tracing; Animation; Concurrent computing; Data visualization; Failure analysis; Information security; Laboratories; Runtime; Switches; Unified modeling language; Yarn;
Conference_Titel :
Computer Software and Applications Conference, 2007. COMPSAC 2007. 31st Annual International
Conference_Location :
Beijing
Print_ISBN :
0-7695-2870-8
DOI :
10.1109/COMPSAC.2007.236