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An Approach for Tracing and Understanding Asynchronous Architectures
Montreal, Quebec, Canada October 06-October 10
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Scott A. Hendrickson, University of California, Irvine
Eric M. Dashofy, University of California, Irvine
Richard N. Taylor, University of California, Irvine
Applications built in a strongly decoupled, event-based interaction style have many commendable characteristics, including ease of dynamic configuration, accommodation of platform heterogeneity, and ease of distribution over a network. It is not always easy to humanly grasp the dynamic behavior of such applications, since many threads are active and events are asynchronously (and profusely) transmitted. We present a set of requirements for an aid to assist in the human understanding and exploration of the behavior of such applications through the incremental refinement of rules for determining causality relationships between messages sent among components. A prototype tool is presented, indicating one viable approach to meeting these requirements. Experience with the tool reinforces some of the requirements and indicates others.
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Scott A. Hendrickson, Eric M. Dashofy, Richard N. Taylor, "An Approach for Tracing and Understanding Asynchronous Architectures," ase, pp.318, 18th IEEE International Conference on Automated Software Engineering (ASE'03), 2003
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