A Visualization-based Environment for Top-down Debugging of Parallel Programs. Sharnowski, J., L. & Cheng, B., H., C. 1995.
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This paper describes a parallel debugging environ-ment that applies visualizations in a top-down, struc-tured approach for debugging. This environment, re-ferred to as GOLD, uses visualizations in the tradi-tional way for examining a program state, but it also extends the use of visualizations in two directions. First, a technique is described for using visualizations to guide the operation of setting a causal distributed breakpoint for a set of processes. Second, a strategy is introduced for coordinating the use of diierent types of visualizations when examining a program state.

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