Asking and Answering Questions During Memory Profiling

The software engineering community has produced numerous tools, techniques, and methodologies for practitioners to analyze and optimize memory usage during software execution. However, little is known about the actual needs of programmers when analyzing memory behavior and how they use tools to addr...

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Vydáno v:IEEE transactions on software engineering Ročník 50; číslo 5; s. 1096 - 1117
Hlavní autoři: Blanco, Alison Fernandez, Cordova, Araceli Queirolo, Bergel, Alexandre, Alcocer, Juan Pablo Sandoval
Médium: Journal Article
Jazyk:angličtina
Vydáno: New York IEEE 01.05.2024
IEEE Computer Society
Témata:
Codes
Data mining
experimental design
Libraries
Memory management
Program analysis
Programmers
Python
Questions
Resource management
Software
Software engineering
ISSN:0098-5589, 1939-3520
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Shrnutí:The software engineering community has produced numerous tools, techniques, and methodologies for practitioners to analyze and optimize memory usage during software execution. However, little is known about the actual needs of programmers when analyzing memory behavior and how they use tools to address those needs. We conducted an exploratory study (i) to understand what a programmer needs to know when analyzing memory behavior and (ii) how a programmer finds that information with current tools. From our observations, we provide a catalog of 34 questions programmers ask themselves when analyzing memory behavior. We also report a detailed analysis of how some tools are used to answer these questions and the difficulties participants face during the process. Finally, we present four recommendations to guide researchers and developers in designing, evaluating, and improving memory behavior analysis tools.
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ISSN:0098-5589
1939-3520
DOI:10.1109/TSE.2024.3377127