PROVIDE: a process visualization and debugging environment

Author

Moher, Thomas G.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. Eng. & Comput. Sci., Illinois Univ., Chicago, IL, USA

Volume

14

Issue

6

fYear

1988

fDate

6/1/1988 12:00:00 AM

Firstpage

849

Lastpage

857

Abstract

The author introduces PROVIDE, a source-level process visualization and debugging environment currently under development at the University of Illinois at Chicago. PROVIDE is a modern coding and debugging environment that is designed to allow the user to configure interaction at a desired level of abstraction. It emphasizes the use of interactive computer graphics for the illustration of program execution, with special attention to the requirements of program debugging. The major features of PROVIDE are presented, especially the concepts of deferred-binding program animation, which allows users to interactively change the depiction of program execution during the debugging task, and process history consistency maintenance, which guarantees a consistent (automatically updated) record of program execution in the face of changes to program instructions and run-time data values. The current PROVIDE prototype is implemented on Macintosh workstations networked to a VAX 11/780 running 4.2 BSD Unix

Keywords

computer graphics; program debugging; programming environments; 4.2 BSD Unix; Macintosh workstations; PROVIDE; University of Illinois; VAX 11/780; debugging environment; deferred-binding program animation; interactive computer graphics; process history consistency maintenance; process visualization environment; program debugging; program execution; Automatic control; Computer graphics; Data visualization; Debugging; Facial animation; History; Prototypes; Runtime; Trademarks; Vehicle dynamics;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Software Engineering, IEEE Transactions on

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

0098-5589

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/32.6163

Filename

6163