Collaborative Software Debugging In A Distributed System With Real-Time Variable Modification Indicators

摘要

In a distributed system that includes a debug server and debug clients coupled for data communications through a data communications network, where the debug server includes a debug administrator, a message router, a back-end debugger, and a debuggee, collaborative software debugging includes: receiving, by the debug server from the debug clients asynchronously during a debug session of the debuggee, a plurality of application-level messages, receiving, from a requesting debug client, a request to notify other debug clients that the requesting debug client is presently modifying a value of a particular variable; routing, by the message router, the application-level messages among the debug clients, the debug administrator, and the back-end debugger, including distributing to the other debug clients a notification of the modification the value of the particular variable; and returning, to the debug clients, client-specific debug results.