Program Monitoring and Visualization

This book describes techniques and methods for implementing software monitoring and visualization procedures. Once implemented, software monitoring and visualization can be of great benefit in program debugging, testing, and optimization. This book should prove very useful for software developers and software engineers seeking to understand the performance of programs.

Inhalt
I Fundamental Concepts.- 1 Introduction.- 2 Related Work.- 3 Visualization Principles and Techniques.- II An Execution Monitoring Framework for Icon.- 4 An Overview of the Alamo Architecture.- 5 A Multitasking Icon Interpreter.- 6 Execution Monitoring in MT Icon.- III Writing Visualization Tools.- 7 Following the Locus of Execution.- 8 Monitoring Procedure Activity.- 9 Monitoring Memory Usage.- 10 Monitoring String Scanning.- 11 Monitoring Structure and Variable Usage.- IV Visualization in the Programming Environment.- 12 Monitor Coordination and Communication.- 13 Performance.- 14 Conclusions and Future Work.- Appendices.- A Algae.- B Eve.- C Event Codes.- C.1 Classes of Events.- C.2 Individual Events.- D The MT Icon Implementation.- D. 1 Icon Interpreter Overview.- D.2 The MT Icon Core.- D.3 Monitoring Support.- E Software and Supporting Documentation.- References.