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Back to the Future: Omniscient Debugging
November/December 2009 (vol. 26 no. 6)
pp. 78-85
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Guillaume Pothier, Éric Tanter, "Back to the Future: Omniscient Debugging," IEEE Software, vol. 26, no. 6, pp. 78-85, November/December, 2009.
 
 
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@article{ 10.1109/MS.2009.169,
author = {Guillaume Pothier and Éric Tanter},
title = {Back to the Future: Omniscient Debugging},
journal ={IEEE Software},
volume = {26},
number = {6},
issn = {0740-7459},
year = {2009},
pages = {78-85},
doi = {http://doi.ieeecomputersociety.org/10.1109/MS.2009.169},
publisher = {IEEE Computer Society},
address = {Los Alamitos, CA, USA},
}
 
 
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Guillaume Pothier, University of Chile
Éric Tanter, University of Chile
Debugging is a tedious and costly process that demands a profound understanding of the dynamic behavior of programs. An omniscient debugger makes the task of tracking down the root cause of bugs straightforward by enabling programmers to seamlessly navigate a buggy program's execution history. So why don't we all have an omniscient debugger in our favorite development environment? Are the challenges of making omniscient debugging practical a definitive barrier to its adoption? This article describes TOD, a scalable omniscient debugger for Java. TOD is integrated into the Eclipse IDE and paves the way for practical omniscient debugging.

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Index Terms:
debugging aids, integrated environments, debuggers
Citation:
Guillaume Pothier, Éric Tanter, "Back to the Future: Omniscient Debugging," IEEE Software, vol. 26, no. 6, pp. 78-85, Nov.-Dec. 2009, doi:10.1109/MS.2009.169
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