Interactive environment for smart summarization of execution trace

Abstract

Execution trace analysis is useful for testing, debugging, and modifying program. Unfortunately, execution trace dump is too much for human inspection in general. Therefore, some means to produce smart summary of execution trace are inevitable. This paper describes tool named SmartSET (smart summarization of execution trace) for execution trace summarization and analysis to help programmer to gain more understanding about program execution. It analyzes raw execution trace from observation means such as debugger or aspect and makes specialized database for compact representation of execution trace. It provides an interactive environment for the programmer to manipulate and summarize execution trace depending on the purpose of analysis.