Patent ID: 8756578
Filing Date: 2014-06-17
Classification: G06F

Abstract:
1. A method of impact indication of thread-specific events in a non-stop debugging environment, the non-stop debugging environment comprising a debugger configured to debug a debuggee comprising a plurality of threads of execution, wherein encountering an event by one of the threads stops execution of only the one thread without concurrently stopping execution of other threads, the method comprising: tracking, by the debugger, activity associated with a thread-specific event, wherein only one thread of the plurality of threads is associated with the thread-specific event; wherein tracking activity associated with a thread-specific event further comprises tracking a number of encounters of the thread-specific event by threads not associated with the thread-specific event; and displaying, by the debugger in a graphical user interface (GUI), an indication of thread-specific event impact in dependence upon the tracked activity.