Paper Info
Title
iDeA - an immersive debugger for actors.
Abstract
We present iDeA, an immersive user interface for debugging concurrent actor programs communicating through asynchronous message passing. iDeA is based on the hypothesis that debugging and understanding actor programs is a cognitive task which can be greatly facilitated by the visualization and interaction capabilities of modern immersive environments. The fundamental abstraction for visualization in iDeA is a concurrent trace: a partially ordered sequence of asynchronous messages exchanged in the execution. iDeA provides a 3D interface in virtual reality for users to visualize and manipulate program traces: users can set breakpoints, query actor state, step through traces forward and backward, and perform causal history of messages in a trace. While the modularity of iDeA enables debugging any actor program provided that the program events are collected and communicated to the visualization end, our implementation of iDeA targets actor programs written in Akka framework in Scala.
Year
DOI
Venue
2018
10.1145/3239332.3242762
Erlang Workshop
Field
DocType
ISBN
Asynchronous communication,Scala,Debugger,Concurrency,Visualization,Computer science,Human–computer interaction,User interface,Message passing,Debugging
Conference
978-1-4503-5824-8
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
0
0.34
24
Authors
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Aman S. Mathur1102.72
Burcu Kulahcioglu Ozkan212.72
Rupak Majumdar33401220.08