HIGHLIGHTING ANOMALIES WHEN DISPLAYING TRACE RESULTS

• US 20080126878A1
• Filed: 11/28/2006
• Published: 05/29/2008
• Est. Priority Date: 11/28/2006
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
• Original Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
• Inventors: Wang, Barbara E., Girouard, Janice M., Best, Steven F., Eggers, Robert J.
• Application Number:
  US11/563,807
• Publication Number:
  US 20080126878A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 714/45
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 11/3636 by tracing the execution of the program

Abstract

A computer program product and method for displaying trace log entries from a plurality of trace logs call for identifying trace log entries; determining a degree of relevancy for each of the trace log entries; and classifying the trace log entries.

Claims

1. A computer program product stored on machine readable media comprising machine readable instructions for displaying trace log entries from a plurality of trace logs, the instructions comprising instructions for:

identifying the trace log entries;

determining a degree of relevancy for each of the trace log entries; and

classifying the trace log entries.

2. The computer program product as in claim 1, further comprising receiving instructions for identifying the trace log entries.

3. The computer program product as in claim 1, further comprising identifying static portions of the trace log entries.

4. The computer program product as in claim 1, further comprising receiving instructions for determining the degree of relevancy.

5. The computer program product as in claim 1, further comprising at least one of a relevancy ratio and an adjusted relevancy ratio.

6. The computer program product as in claim 1, further comprising determining a relevancy ratio by determining a ratio of a percentage of occurrence for each trace log entry from a first trace log to the percentage of occurrence for the same trace log entry from a plurality of other trace logs.

7. The computer program product as in claim 6, further comprising determining an adjusted relevancy ratio.

8. The computer program product as in claim 1, further comprising determining a relevancy ratio by determining a ratio of a percentage of occurrence for each trace log entry in each trace log to the percentage of occurrence for the same trace log entry in at least one adjacent trace log.

9. The computer program product as in claim 8, further comprising determining an adjusted relevancy ratio.

10. The computer program product as in claim 1, further comprising identifying preferences where the preferences are at least one of an input and a default.

11. The computer program product as in claim 1, further comprising highlighting the trace log entries with a selected color correlated to the degree of relevancy.

12. The computer program product as in claim 1, further comprising alerting a user to trace log entries that exceed a degree of relevancy threshold.

13. The computer program product as in claim 1, further comprising using the trace log entries as markers to identify a window.

14. The computer program product as in claim 1, wherein the product is an add-in.

15. A computer system comprising a computer program product having instructions for displaying trace log entries from a plurality of trace logs, the product comprising instructions for:

receiving instructions for identifying the trace log entries;

identifying static portions of the trace log entries;

receiving instructions for determining the degree of relevancy;

determining the degree of relevancy using a relevancy ratio determined from one of a ratio of a percentage of occurrence for each trace log entry for a first trace log to the percentage of occurrence for the same trace log entry for a plurality of other trace logs;

a ratio of the percentage of occurrence of each trace log entry in each trace log to the percentage of occurrence of the same trace log entry in at least one adjacent trace log; and

an adjusted relevancy ratio;

identifying preferences where the preferences are at least one of an input and a default;

highlighting the trace log entries with a selected color correlated to the degree of relevancy;

alerting a user to trace log entries that exceed a degree of relevancy threshold; and

using the trace log entries as markers to identify a window.