Read the White Paper on System Debugging

The White Paper on System Debugging

by
Henrik Thane, Ph.D. and Kristian Sandtröm, Ph.D.

Abstract

In a world of computers with ever increasing complexity and pervasiveness, there is an increasing need for debugging methods that can tackle system level faults, where reproducibility and observability of multiple interacting programs and subsystems can be dealt with holistically, and where in field debugging is as important as predeployment debugging.
In this paper we describe System Debugging as the next step into which traditional debugging methods need to evolve in order understand complex failure situations, by means of holistically recording and replaying software and hardware faults.