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Fiddle: A Flexible Distributed Debugger Architecture

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In the recent past, multiple techniques and tools have been proposed and contributed to improve the distributed debugging functionalities, in several distinct aspects, such as handling the non-determinism, allowing cyclic interactive debugging of parallel programs, and providing more user-friendly interfaces. However, most of these tools are tied to a specific programming language and provide rigid graphical user interfaces. So they cannot easily adapt to support distinct abstraction levels or user interfaces. They also don’t provide adequate support for cooperation with other tools in a software engineering environment. In this paper we discuss several dimensions which may contribute to develop more flexible distributed debuggers. We describe Fiddle, a distributed debugging tool which aims at overcoming some of the above limitations.

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  1. Departamento de Informática, Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal

    João Lourenço & José C. Cunha

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  1. School of Computer Science, Cybernetics and Electronic Engineering, University of Reading, Whiteknights, PO Box 225, Reading, RG 6 6AY, UK

    Vassil N. Alexandrov

  2. Innovative Computing Lab, Computer Sciences Department, University of Tennessee, 1122 Volunteer Blvd, Knoxville, TN, 37996-3450, USA

    Jack J. Dongarra

  3. Computer Science Department, California State University, Chico, CA, 95929-0410, USA

    Benjoe A. Juliano  & René S. Renner  & 

  4. The Queen’s University of Belfast, School of Computer Science, Belfast BT7 1NN, Northern Ireland, UK

    C. J. Kenneth Tan

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Lourenço, J., Cunha, J.C. (2001). Fiddle: A Flexible Distributed Debugger Architecture. In: Alexandrov, V.N., Dongarra, J.J., Juliano, B.A., Renner, R.S., Tan, C.J.K. (eds) Computational Science - ICCS 2001. ICCS 2001. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 2074. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-45718-6_87

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