• Java
• Linux
• Debugging
• Tracing
• Profiling
• Software Visualization
• Algorithm Animation
• Program Comprehension
• Computer Game Programming
• Visualizing Parallel and Distributed Programs
• Reverse Engineering
• Source Code Browsers

Miscellaneous Documents

• Quiz template which, when run through LaTeX will look like this.
• Presentation Evaluation Form .

Java [Back to top]

Sites and Tools

• jvmpi
• Java profiling (Javaworld article)
• Omniscient Debugging
• jProfiler, also, see here.
• Jive - Java interactive Software Visualization
• jInsight
• AppPerfect Java Profiler
• JProbe Java profiler
• VisualizeIt!
• RetroVue Java Software Visualization Tool

Papers

• JIVE and JOVE: Java as it Happens ,
  Steven P. Reiss and Manos Renieris
• Visualizing the Execution of Java Programs,
  De Pauw, Jensen, Mitchell,Sevitsky, Vlissides, Yang.
• Gadget: A Tool for Extracting the Dynamic Structure of Java Programs,
  Juan Gargiulo, Spiros Mancoridis
• Dynamic metrics for Java,
  Bruno Dufour Karel Driesen, Laurie Hendren, Clark Verbrugge,
• Using Hardware Performance Monitors to Understand the Behavior of Java Applications,
  Peter F. Sweeney, Matthias Hauswirth, Brendon Cahoon, Perry Cheng, Amer Diwan, David Grove, Michael Hind
• Drive-by Analysis of Running Programs,
  De Pauw, W., Mitchell, N., Robillard, M., Sevitsky, G., and Srinivasan, H.
• An Information Exploration Tool for Performance Analysis of Java Programs,
  Sevitsky, G., De Pauw, W., Konuru, R.
• Jinsight
• Comprehensive Profiling Support in the Java Virtual Machine
  L Albertsson, PS Magnusson
• Differential Profiling,
  Paul E. McKenney *
• JAVAVIS: Automatic Program Visualization with Object and Sequence Diagrams Using the Java Debug Interface (JDI) Rainer Oechsle, Thomas Schmitt A1
  
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Linux [Back to top]

Sites and Tools

• DDD , also see here
• GDB
• Valgrind memory debugger
• Oprofile
• IBM Performance Inspector
• Linux Trace Toolkit
• dProbes
• Process Tracing Using Ptrace Part I Part II (ELF headers)
• Playing with ptrace Part I Part II
• Adnvanced Linux Programming

Papers

• Profiling and Tracing in Linux ,
  Sameer Shende

Debugging [Back to top]

Sites and Tools

• Algorithmic and Automatic Debugging Home Page
• AADEBUG2005
• A declarative debugger for Haskell 98
• Omniscient Debugging
• Ariadne - Event Based Debugging
• UPS debugger
• Guard - A Relative Debugger
• GDB

Papers

• High-Level Debugging in Parasight,
  Z Aral, I Gertner
• Portable Debugging and Profiling,
  Mikael Pettersson
• Debugging Operating Systems with Time-Traveling Virtual Machines,
  Samuel T. King, George W. Dunlap, and Peter M. Chen
• A Taxonomy of Distributed Debuggers Based on Execution Replay
  Carl Dionne, Marc Feeley, Jocelyn Desbiens Alex
• Instruction-level Reverse Execution for Debugging,
  Tankut Akgul and Vincent J. Mooney III
• A Survey of Support For Implementing Debuggers
  Vern Paxson
• A Perturbation-Free Replay Platform for Cross-Optimized Multithreaded Applications,
  Jong-Deok Choi, Bowen Alpern, Ton Ngo, Manu Sridharan, John Vlissides
• Reverse Execution of Java Bytecode,
  JONATHAN J. COOK
• A "Flight Data Recorder" for Enabling Full-system Multiprocessor Deterministic Replay,
  Min Xu, Rastislav Bodik, Mark D. Hill
• JVM Independent Replay in Java,
  Viktor Schuppan, Marcel Baur, Armin Biere
• Dependable Software Needs Pervasive Debugging,
  Timothy L. Harris
• Efficient Algorithms for Bidirectional Debugging
  Bob Boothe
• An integrated approach to parallel program debugging and performance analysis onlarge-scale multiprocessors
  Robert J. Fowler, Thomas J. LeBlanc, John M. Mellor-Crummey
• Supporting reverse execution for parallel programs,
  Douglas Z. Pan, Mark A. Linton
• Jockey: A user-space library for record-replay debugging, Yasushi Saito
  
• Eclipse Guard: Relative Debugging in the Eclipse Framework David Abramson, Tim Ho, Clement Chu and Wojtek Goscinski
  
• RELATIVE DEBUGGING USING MULTIPLE PROGRAM VERSIONS, David Abramson and Rok Sosic
  
• IGOR: a system for program debugging via reversible execution, Feldman and Brown
  
• Supporting reverse execution for parallel programs, Pan and Linton
  
• Fast breakpoints: design and implementation, Peter B. Kessler
  
• PROVIDE: A Process Visualization and Debugging Environment, T. G. Moher
  
• A Debugging Tool for Software Evolution, David Abramson and Rok Sosic
  
• Practical Data Breakpoints: Design and Implementation Robert Wahbe Steven Lucco Susan L. Graham
  
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Tracing [Back to top]

Sites and Tools

• Poet (Partial-Order Event Tracer) - The Shoshin Debugger

Papers

• Designing a trace format for heap allocation events
  Trishul Chilimbi, Richard Jones, Benjamin Zorn'
• Optimal Tracing and Incremental Reexecution for Debugging Long-Running Programs,
  RHB Netzer, MH Weaver
• Record/Replay for Nondeterministic Program Executions,
  M Ronsse, K De Bosschere, M Christiaens, et al.
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Profiling [Back to top]

Sites and Tools

• Vertical Profiling
• Intel VTune
• PCT
• SimOS

Papers

• Using the SimOS Machine Simulator to Study Complex Computer Systems,
  Mendel Rosenblum, Edouard Bugnion, Scott Devine, and Steve Herrod
• STOOP, The Sable Toolkit for Object-Oriented Profiling ,
  Rhodes Brown, Karel Driesen, John Jorgensen, Laurie J. Hendren, Qin Wang, Clark Verbrugge.
• Simple and General Statistical Profiling with PCT
• Code Profiling Tools
• Understanding the Performance of the Java Operating System using Visualization Techniques
• PAT: A Postmortem Object Access Pattern Analysis and Visualization Tool
• Vertical Profiling: Understanding the Behavior of Object-Oriented Applications ,
  Matthias Hauswirth, Peter F. Sweeney, Amer Diwan, Michael Hind
• Comprehensive Profiling Support in the Java Virtual Machine
• Java Virtual Machine Profiler Interface ,
  D. Viswanathan and S. Liang
• JaViz: A client/server Java profiling tool,
  I. H. Kazi, D. P. Jose, B. Ben-Hamida, C. J. Hescott, C. Kwok, J. A. Konstan, D. J. Lilja, and P.-C Yew
• Optimally Profiling and Tracing Programs,
  Ball, Laurus
• Object-Oriented Program Tracing and Visualization,
  
• Whole Program Paths .
  Larus
• Encoding Program Executions,
  Steven P. Reiss, Manos Renieris
• gprof: a Call Graph Execution Profiler,
  Susan L. Graham, Peter B. Kessler, Marshall K. McKusick
• Continuous Profiling: Where Have All the Cycles Gone?
  Jennifer M. Anderson, Lance M. BERC, JEFFREY DEAN, SANJAY GHEMAWAT, MONIKA R. HENZINGER, SHUN-TAK A. LEUNG, RICHARD L. SITES, MARK T. VANDEVOORDE, CARL A. WALDSPURGER, WILLIAM E. WEIHL
• Visualizing Interactions in Program Executions,
  Dean F. Jerding, John T. Stasko, Thomas Ball
• Visualizing Dynamic Software System Information through High-level Models,
  Robert J. Walker, et al.
• IMPuLSE: Integrated Monitoring and Profiling for Large-Scale Environments
  Patrick Bridges, Arthur Maccabe
• Operating System Support for Replay of Concurrent Non-Deterministic Shared Memory Applications,
  Mark Russinovich and Bryce Cogswell
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Software Visualization [Back to top]

Sites and Tools

• Software visualization at GVU
• Software Visualization Edited by John T. Stasko, John B. Domingue, Marc H. Brown and Blaine A. Price
• Jive
• Softvis05
• Visualization of Program-Execution Data for Deployed Software
• BLOOM
• FIELD
• DESERT
• JIVE
• aesthetic computing
• Computer-Human Interaction and Software Engineering lab (CHISEL).
• Goose --- tool set for analysing the design of object-oriented software systems.
• Rivet