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A Record/Replay Debugger for Service Development on the Cloud

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Cloud Computing and Services Science (CLOSER 2018)

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Cloud based software development platforms are continuously becoming more powerful and penetrate towards the daily routines of modern developers. This paper presents a debugging approach that can be used in cloud based service development platforms where developer is working on relatively small sized scripts to be hosted on multi-tenant cloud platforms. Presented remote debugging approach utilizes record/replay technique to re-execute and record the variable evaluations whenever an exception is thrown during the developed service’s run-time. Additionally, an alternative recording scheme is also proposed that involves only recording external data accesses. Memory and run-time overhead of proposed approaches show that remote debugging approach can be useful especially when the minimal recording scheme is applied.

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  1. Department of Computer Engineering, Istanbul Technical University, Maslak, 34469, Istanbul, Turkey

    M. Subhi Sheikh Quroush & Tolga Ovatman

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  1. Escola d’Enginyeria, Bellaterra, Barcelona, Spain

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  2. Columbia University, New York, USA

    Donald Ferguson

  3. Dublin City University, Dublin 9, Ireland

    Markus Helfert

  4. Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Bolzano, Bolzano, Italy

    Claus Pahl

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Sheikh Quroush, M.S., Ovatman, T. (2019). A Record/Replay Debugger for Service Development on the Cloud. In: Muñoz, V., Ferguson, D., Helfert, M., Pahl, C. (eds) Cloud Computing and Services Science. CLOSER 2018. Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol 1073. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-29193-8_4

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