Retrospective Zooming: A Knowledge Based Tracking and Debugging Methodology for Logic Programming

Eisenstadt, Marc

Retrospective Zooming: A Knowledge Based Tracking and Debugging Methodology for Logic Programming

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Proceedings of the Ninth International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence. Logic Programming. Pages 717-718.

Abstract

This paper describes new tracing and debugging facilities for logic programmming (Prolog in particular), based on a selective retrospective analysis of an exhaustive run-time trace. The tracer uses an enriched repertoire of program success/failure 'symptoms' to improve the clarity of the trace, and identifies characteristic 'symptom clusters' in order to work out the true cause of a bug.

Marc Eisenstadt. 1985. Retrospective Zooming: A Knowledge Based Tracking and Debugging Methodology for Logic Programming. In Proceedings of the Ninth International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence, IJCAI-85. IJCAI, 717–718. https://ijcai.org/proceedings/1985/140

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  author    = {Eisenstadt, Marc},
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  note      = {Logic Programming},
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