Dynamic Debugging State View for Collaborative Software Systems
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Solution Overview
Problem
In collaborative software development environments, debugging processes are inefficient due to a lack of visibility among team members, leading to repeated efforts and inefficiencies as changes made by one developer are not visible to others.
Innovation Solution
A system that tracks debugging actions in a runtime environment, identifies relevant attributes, and displays them through a user interface, providing a dynamic view of the debugging state, including object creation rates, method calls, and object lifetimes, to facilitate a global understanding of changes and identify recurring issues.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Productivity
If multiple collaborators work on debugging the same software system independently, then each collaborator can focus on their own debugging tasks, but the debugging process becomes inefficient due to lack of visibility of each other's actions
Solution Approach 1:
The patent implements a feedback mechanism where debugging actions performed by one collaborator are automatically tracked and displayed to all other collaborators through a shared user interface. This creates real-time visibility of debugging activities including object creation rates, method calls, and object lifetimes, allowing team members to see what others are doing and avoid redundant work.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent introduces a debugging program as an intermediary system that collects debugging actions from multiple collaborators, processes this information, and presents a unified view to all users. This intermediary layer aggregates debugging data from different sources and makes it accessible to the entire team, resolving the information visibility problem.
2Loss of time
If collaborators work independently without shared visibility, then each can work at their own pace, but redundant debugging efforts occur and time is wasted
Solution Approach 1:
The patent implements self-service functionality where the debugging program automatically tracks and monitors debugging actions without requiring manual intervention from collaborators. The system autonomously collects data about debugging activities, identifies patterns, and presents relevant information to users, eliminating the need for manual coordination overhead.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent ensures continuous tracking and display of debugging actions across all collaborators throughout the debugging process. The system maintains an ongoing record of debugging activities and continuously updates the shared view, ensuring that information about current debugging state is always available without interruption or gaps.
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AI summary
An example operation may include one or more of tracking debugging actions performed to a software system via a runtime environment of the debugging actions, identifying one or more debugging attributes of an object of the software system based on the tracked debugging actions performed to the software system, generating a window which includes details of the one or more identified debugging attributes of the object, and displaying the window which includes the details of the one or more identified debugging attributes via a user interface of a debugging program.