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Form: A Framework for Creating Views of Program Executions

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Spiros Mancoridis,

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ICSM '01: Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Software Maintenance (ICSM'01)

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https://doi.org/10.1109/ICSM.2001.972778

Published: 07 November 2001 Publication History

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Form is a framework used to construct tools for analyzing the runtime behavior of standalone and distributed software systems. The architecture of Form is based on the event broadcast and pipe and filter styles. In the implementation of this architecture, execution profiles may be generated from standalone or distributed systems. The profile data is subsequently broadcast by Form to one or more views. Each view is a tool used to support program understanding or other software development activities.In this paper we describe the Form architecture and implementation, as well as a tool that was built using Form. This tool profiles Java-based distributed systems and generates UML sequence diagrams to describe their execution. We also present a case study that shows how this tool was used to extract sequence diagrams from a three-tiered EJB-based distributed application.

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Form: A Framework for Creating Views of Program Executions
1. Social and professional topics
  1. Professional topics
    1. Management of computing and information systems
      1. Software management
        Software maintenance
2. Software and its engineering
  1. Software creation and management
    1. Software post-development issues
    2. Software verification and validation
      1. Software defect analysis
        Software testing and debugging
  2. Software notations and tools
    1. General programming languages
      1. Language features
        Frameworks

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Bohnet JDöllner JGupta NPodgurski A(2006)Analyzing feature implementation by visual exploration of architecturally-embedded call-graphsProceedings of the 2006 international workshop on Dynamic systems analysis10.1145/1138912.1138922(41-48)Online publication date: 23-May-2006
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Mos AIbrahim M(2002)A framework for performance management of component based distributed applicationsCompanion of the 17th annual ACM SIGPLAN conference on Object-oriented programming, systems, languages, and applications10.1145/985072.985131(116-117)Online publication date: 4-Nov-2002
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https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/985072.985080

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