Computer Software
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REMViewer: A Visualization Tool for Multiple Execution Paths of Java Method
Toshinori MATSUMURATakashi ISHIOYu KASHIMAKatsuro INOUE
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2015 Volume 32 Issue 3 Pages 3_137-3_148

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The state of a program at runtime is useful information for developers to understand a program. Omniscient Debugging and logging-based tools enable developers to investigate the state of a program at an arbitrary point of time in an execution. While these tools are effective to analyze the state at a single point of time, they might be insufficient to understand the generic behavior of a method which includes various control-flow paths. In this paper, we propose REMViewer (Repeatedly-Executed-Method Viewer), or a tool that visualizes multiple execution paths of a Java method. The tool shows each execution path in a separated view so that developers can firstly select actual execution paths of interest and then compare the state of local variables in the paths.
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