{"title":"The use of program profiling for software maintenance with applications to the year 2000 problem","authors":"T. Reps, T. Ball, Manuvir Das, J. Larus","doi":"10.1145/267895.267925","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"This paper describes new techniques to help with testing and debugging, using information obtained from path profiling. A path profiler instruments a program so that the number of times each different loop-free path executes is accumulated during an execution run. With such an instrumented program, each run of the program generates a path spectrum for the execution—a distribution of the paths that were executed during that run. A path spectrum is a finite, easily obtainable characterization of a program's execution on a dataset, and provides a behavior signature for a run of the program.","PeriodicalId":297962,"journal":{"name":"ESEC '97/FSE-5","volume":"25 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"1997-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"302","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"ESEC '97/FSE-5","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1145/267895.267925","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"","JCRName":"","Score":null,"Total":0}
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This paper describes new techniques to help with testing and debugging, using information obtained from path profiling. A path profiler instruments a program so that the number of times each different loop-free path executes is accumulated during an execution run. With such an instrumented program, each run of the program generates a path spectrum for the execution—a distribution of the paths that were executed during that run. A path spectrum is a finite, easily obtainable characterization of a program's execution on a dataset, and provides a behavior signature for a run of the program.
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