Spy: A Flexible Code Profiling Framework

Bergel, Alexandre; Balnados, Felipe; Robbes, Romain; Röthlisberger, David (2010). Spy: A Flexible Code Profiling Framework. In: Smalltalks 2010.

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Code profiling is an essential activity to increase software quality. It is commonly employed in a wide variety of tasks, such as supporting program comprehension, determining execution bottlenecks, and assessing code coverage by unit tests. Spy is an innovative framework to easily build profilers and visualize profiling information. The profiling information is obtained by inserting dedicated code before or after method execution. The gathered profiling information is structured in line with the application structure in terms of packages, classes, and methods. Spy has been instantiated on four occasions so far. We created profilers dedicated to test coverage, time execution, type feedback, and profiling evolution across version. We also integrated Spy in the Pharo IDE. Spy has been implemented in the Pharo Smalltalk programming language and is available under the MIT license.

Item Type:

Conference or Workshop Item (Paper)

Division/Institute:

08 Faculty of Science > Institute of Computer Science (INF)
08 Faculty of Science > Institute of Computer Science (INF) > Software Composition Group (SCG) [discontinued]

UniBE Contributor:

Röthlisberger, David

Language:

English

Submitter:

Factscience Import

Date Deposited:

04 Oct 2013 14:17

Last Modified:

05 Dec 2022 14:04

Web of Science ID:

000299067600002

URI:

https://boris.unibe.ch/id/eprint/4970 (FactScience: 209633)

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