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As the causal relationships induced by communication between cooperating processes are crucial for understanding the dynamic behavior of parallel and distributed systems, tool support is needed for analyzing them. This paper presents hasse, a tool which graphically represents the event traces from cooperating processes according to a formal description of their causal interdependences. Hasse allows to interactively zoom and further analyze the systems' activities shown. Especially the ability to automatically determine and display the pre-area and post-area of selected events is an important aid for determining the cause of an observed undesired behavior.
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Dauphin, P., Hofmann, R. (1995). HASSE: a tool for analyzing causal relationships in parallel and distributed systems. In: Beilner, H., Bause, F. (eds) Quantitative Evaluation of Computing and Communication Systems. TOOLS 1995. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 977. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/BFb0024321
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