CSc 620 Debugging, Profiling, Tracing, and Visualizing Programs - Schedule

Introduction

Week 1

Lecture #1, Mon, Aug 22: Administrivia, Introduction

Grading policy
Course content
Lecture note #0 (Administrivia) handed out.
Visit from John Hartman
Discussing the NSF grant proposal

Debugging

Lecture #2, Wed, Aug 24: JVM

Debugging
JVM, the Java Virtual Machine
BCEL, Manipulating JVM Classfiles
Lecture note #1 (JVM) handed out.
Lecture note #2 (Java Bytecode --- BCEL) handed out.
Read SandMark
Read BCEL
Read Java Platform Debugger Architecture
Read Java Platform Debugger Architecture
Read JDI API

Week 2

Lecture #3, Mon, Aug 29: Debugging

Introduction to debugging (15 minute presentations)
Read How Debuggers Work : Algorithms, Data Structures, and Architecture, Chapter 3 Hardware debugger facilities (presented by srb)
Read How Debuggers Work : Algorithms, Data Structures, and Architecture, Chapter 5 Controlling Execution (presented by heman)
Read How Debuggers Work : Algorithms, Data Structures, and Architecture, Chapter 6 Breakpoints and Single Stepping (presented by dennisb)
Assignment 1 (Java tracing tool) handed out.

Lecture #4, Wed, Aug 31: x86

Read How Debuggers Work : Algorithms, Data Structures, and Architecture, Chapter 7 Discovering Program Context (presented by srb)
The PLTO x86 binary editor presented by Somu

Week 3

Lecture #5, Mon, Sep 5: Labor Day

Labor Day, no class.

Lecture #6, Wed, Sep 7: Basic Techniques

Debugging on Linux (30 minute presentation)
Read Playing with ptrace, Part I (presented by rhunter)
Read Playing with ptrace, Part II (presented by rhunter)
Read Fast breakpoints: design and implementation (presented by sowmya)
Read Dependable Software Needs Pervasive Debugging (presented by kai)

Week 4

Lecture #7, Mon, Sep 12: Replay Techniques

Read JVM Independent Replay in Java (presented by vbalaji)
Read A Debugging Tool for Software Evolution (presented by jaikumar)
Assignment 1 (Java tracing tool) is due.
Assignment 2 (C tracing tool) handed out.
Read Efficient Algorithms for Bidirectional Debugging (presented by dennisb)

Lecture #8, Wed, Sep 14: Operating System Issues

Read Debugging Operating Systems with Time-Traveling Virtual Machines (presented by judd)
Demos (10 minutes per presentation)
Read Omniscient Debugging (presented by austinps)
Read Valgrind memory debugger (presented by SOME-RANDOM-STUDENT)
Read DDD (presented by milind)
Read (The DDD manual)

Profiling

Week 5

Lecture #9, Mon, Sep 19: Profiling Java

Read STOOP, The Sable Toolkit for Object-Oriented Profiling (For reference)
Read Profiling and Tracing in Linux (For reference)
Read Java Virtual Machine Profiler Interface (JVMPI) (For reference)
20-minute presentations
Read Java Virtual Machine Profiler Interface (milind)
Read JaViz: A client/server Java profiling tool (vbalaji)

Lecture #10, Wed, Sep 21: Profiling C

30-minute presentations
Read gprof: a Call Graph Execution Profiler (rhunter)
Read Continuous Profiling: Where Have All the Cycles Gone? (judd)

Week 6

Lecture #11, Mon, Sep 26: Hardware monitors

30-minute presentations
Read Vertical Profiling: Understanding the Behavior of Object-Oriented Applications (jaikumar)
Read Using Hardware Performance Monitors to Understand the Behavior of Java Applications (sowmya)
Assignment 2 (C tracing tool) is due.
Assignment 3 (Java profiling tool) handed out.

Lecture #12, Wed, Sep 28: OS issues

30-minute presentations
Read Simple and General Statistical Profiling with PCT (heman)
Read PCT (heman)
Read Using the SimOS Machine Simulator to Study Complex Computer Systems (kai)
Read SimOS (kai)

Visualization

Week 7

Lecture #13, Mon, Oct 3: Tools

Assignment 3 (Java profiling tool) is due.
Assignment 4 (C profiling tool) handed out.
Read EVolve: an open extensible software visualization framework (austinps)

Lecture #14, Wed, Oct 5: Tools

Week 8

Lecture #15, Mon, Oct 10: Evolution

Read BLOOM (sung)
Read A system for graph-based visualization of the evolution of software (sowmya)
Assignment 4 (C profiling tool) is due.
Assignment 5 (Visualization) handed out.

Lecture #16, Wed, Oct 12: 3D

Projects

Week 9

Lecture #17, Mon, Oct 17: TBA

Projects

Lecture #18, Wed, Oct 19: TBA

Projects

Week 10

Lecture #19, Mon, Oct 24: TBA

Projects

Lecture #20, Wed, Oct 26: TBA

Projects
Collberg's Halloween Party on Saturday!!!

Week 11

Lecture #21, Mon, Oct 31: TBA

Projects

Lecture #22, Wed, Nov 2: TBA

Projects

Week 12

Lecture #23, Mon, Nov 7: TBA

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Lecture #24, Wed, Nov 9: TBA

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Week 13

Lecture #25, Mon, Nov 14: TBA

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Lecture #26, Wed, Nov 16: TBA

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Week 14

Lecture #27, Mon, Nov 21: TBA

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Lecture #28, Wed, Nov 23: TBA

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Week 15

Lecture #29, Mon, Nov 28: TBA

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Lecture #30, Wed, Nov 30: TBA

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Week 16

Lecture #31, Mon, Dec 5: TBA

Projects

Lecture #32, Wed, Dec 7: TBA

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