Patent ID: 7900195
Filing Date: 2011-03-01
Classification: G06F

Abstract:
1. An article of manufacture for directing a data processing system to investigate computer software, the article comprising: a computer readable storage medium embodying one or more executable data processing system instructions, the executable data processing system instructions comprising: executable data processing system instructions for determining whether one or more boundary points of the computer software is one of a layer boundary point, a synchronous control boundary point, and an asynchronous control boundary point; executable data processing system instructions for capturing tracing information at the one or more boundary points of the computer software in response to the determining; executable data processing system instructions for reproducing a behavior of the computer software at the one or more boundary points based on the captured tracing information; executable data processing system instructions for interpreting the captured tracing information to distinguish individually traced boundary points among the one or more boundary points; in response to the determining that the one or more boundary points is the layer boundary point, executable data processing system instructions for defining the tracing information in response to zero or more arguments and a return code for each function defining the layer boundary point of said one or more boundary points; and in response to the determining that the one or more boundary points is the synchronous boundary point or the asynchronous boundary point, executable data processing system instructions for defining the tracing information in response to at least one of data sent and data received across the synchronous control boundary point or the asynchronous control boundary point of said one or more boundary points.