Authors:
Andreas Koch
and
Albert Zündorf
Affiliation:
Kassel University, Germany
Keyword(s):
Tool, Debug, Distributed, UML2, Objectdiagram, Eclipse.
Related
Ontology
Subjects/Areas/Topics:
Applications and Software Development
;
Languages, Tools and Architectures
;
MetaModeling
;
Methodologies, Processes and Platforms
;
Model-Based Testing and Validation
;
Model-Driven Architecture
;
Model-Driven Software Development
;
Modeling for the Cloud
;
Models
;
Paradigm Trends
;
Software Engineering
Abstract:
While debugging is one of the most time consuming tasks software developers perform, the tool support,
especially for distributed applications, is lacking according to many professional developers. The Visual Debugger
is an approach to provide an easy-to-use tool which gives software developers an abstract view on the
current state of their application in debugging sessions. While similar tools for non distributed applications already
exist, the Visual Debugger addresses the more complex debugging scenarios in distributed applications.
Therefore, several views with different levels of abstraction of the current state of an application are provided.
Although the approach may be adapted to other object oriented programming languages, the current target of
the Visual Debugger is languages running on the Java Virtual Machine with the focus on Java.