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{ Monthly Archives } July 2011

overview ownership/communication graphs for rich execution logs

My last blog post covered the fancy pants logging being used for the deuxdrop project.  To summarize: we have loggers they are organized by ownership hierarchy they provide sufficient metadata that we can reconstruct the loggers that were talking to each other This can result in a lot of loggers.  If you look at the […]

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2011 07 20 Andrew Sutherland Mozilla
Program Execution
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new adventures in rich (execution) logs for debugging and program understanding

Understanding what is going on inside software can be very hard, even for the developers most familiar with the software.  During my time working on Thunderbird I used a variety of techniques to try and peer inside: printf/dump/console.log, debuggers, execution analysis (dtrace, chronicle recorder, with object diffs, on timelines), logging (log4j style, with  timelines, with […]

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2011 07 12 Andrew Sutherland Debugging
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