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Title:
A petri net toolkit for parallel program debugging
Author:
Reddy, Potla Kishore
Document Type:
Thesis
Department:
Department of Computer and Information Science
Degree:
Master of Science
Major:
Computer Science
Advisory Committee:
Chao, Daniel Y.
Eshaghian, Mary M.
Wang, David T.
Thesis Date:
1993, January
Keywords:
Debugging in computer science
Parallel programming (Computer science)
Petri nets
Availability:
Unrestricted
Abstract:

An effective debugger must support the language and operating system resource abstractions that are available to the programmer. Earlier debuggers worked at the machine architecture level: they dealt with machine instructions and registers. Current debuggers, designed for single process debugging, permit access to program variables and breakpoints and single-stepping at the level of high-level language statements. Eventhough the current debuggers, are already implemented to be a powerful tool, they still cannot do a job of parallel debugger.

In this thesis, a computer simulation system has been established by Petri Nets execution providing a convenient and friendly interface as it allows the user to do parallel program debugging.

The Parallel Debugger is simulated by providing a time parameter for each transition and thus simulating the net performance. Hitherto, this time parameter can either be constant or exponentially distributed.

Complete Thesis:
njit-etd1993-002 (66 pages ~ 2,077 KB pdf)
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