Synoptic: Studying logged behavior with inferred models

TitleSynoptic: Studying logged behavior with inferred models
Publication TypeConference Paper
Year of Publication2011
AuthorsBeschastnikh I, Abrahamson J, Brun Y, Ernst MD
Conference NameESEC/FSE 2011: The 8th joint meeting of the European Software Engineering Conference (ESEC) and the ACM SIGSOFT Symposium on the Foundations of Software Engineering (FSE)
Date or Month PublishedSeptember 7–9
Conference LocationSzeged, Hungary
Abstract<p>Logging is a powerful method for capturing program activity and state during an execution. However, log inspection remains a tedious activity, with developers often piecing together what went on from multiple log lines and across many files. This paper describes Synoptic, a tool that takes logs as input and outputs a finite state machine that models the process generating the logs. The paper overviews the model inference algorithms. Then, it describes the Synoptic tool, which is designed to support a rich log exploration workflow.</p>
Citation KeyBeschastnikhABE2011
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