Patent ID: 8769497

Claim:
A method for use in indicating an execution of application source code, said method comprising: defining a plurality of execution frequencies including a never-executed frequency, an executed-once frequency, and an executed-repeatedly frequency; receiving, from a user prior to the execution of the application source code, a plurality of source code portions of interest; generating, by the processor, application object code based on the application source code, wherein the application object code includes at least a plurality of computer executable instructions and a plurality of object code portions of interest corresponding to a plurality of source code portions of interest; executing the application object code by the processor; generating an execution event record with the corresponding source code portion of interest in a memory device for each execution of an object code portion of interest, wherein the execution event record includes at least one of an execution counter, associated with a number of executions of the object code portion of interest, being incremented and an execution timestamp; associating, by the processor, an execution frequency with each source code portion of interest based on a quantity of execution event records associated with the source code portion of interest; and displaying a first proportion of source code portions of interest associated with the executed-repeatedly frequency graphically distinguishably from a second proportion of source code portions of interest associated with the executed-once frequency.