{"title":"RuntimeSearch: Ctrl+F for a running program","authors":"Matúš Sulír, J. Porubän","doi":"10.1109/ASE.2017.8115651","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"Developers often try to find occurrences of a certain term in a software system. Traditionally, a text search is limited to static source code files. In this paper, we introduce a simple approach, RuntimeSearch, where the given term is searched in the values of all string expressions in a running program. When a match is found, the program is paused and its runtime properties can be explored with a traditional debugger. The feasibility and usefulness of RuntimeSearch is demonstrated on a medium-sized Java project.","PeriodicalId":382876,"journal":{"name":"2017 32nd IEEE/ACM International Conference on Automated Software Engineering (ASE)","volume":"30 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"2017-10-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"2","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"2017 32nd IEEE/ACM International Conference on Automated Software Engineering (ASE)","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ASE.2017.8115651","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"","JCRName":"","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract
Developers often try to find occurrences of a certain term in a software system. Traditionally, a text search is limited to static source code files. In this paper, we introduce a simple approach, RuntimeSearch, where the given term is searched in the values of all string expressions in a running program. When a match is found, the program is paused and its runtime properties can be explored with a traditional debugger. The feasibility and usefulness of RuntimeSearch is demonstrated on a medium-sized Java project.