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Back to Home| Abstract Developers increasingly have to diagnose anomalies in programs and libraries they only have a partial knowledge of. As a result, they must simultaneously reverse engineer the parts of the system they are unfamiliar with while interpreting dynamic observation data (performance profiling traces, error-propagation channels, memory leaks), a task particularly costly and difficult. In this paper, we propose a novel interactive navigation to analyse and diagnose the CPU usage of little-known programs and libraries. Our method exploits the structural information present in profiling call trees to selectively raise or lower the local abstraction level of the performance data. We present the formalism underpinning our approach, describe a prototype, and discuss the results of a preliminary user study that shows our tool has the potential to complement more traditional navigation approaches. |
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