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The Field Programming Environment: A Friendly Integrated Environment for Learning and Development

FIELD has been a remarkably successful research project. The ideas first exhibited in the environment now form the basis for most of the current generation of programming environments, including Hewlett-Packard's Softbench, DEC's FUSE, Sun's Tooltalk, Lucid's Energize, and SGI�...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Reiss, Steven P.
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New York, NY Springer US 1995, 1995
Edition:1st ed. 1995
Series:The Springer International Series in Engineering and Computer Science
Subjects:
Compilers (computer Programs)
Compilers And Interpreters
Software Engineering
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Collection: Springer Book Archives -2004 - Collection details see MPG.ReNa
Table of Contents:
  • 6.2 Program Profiling
  • 6.3 Execution Monitoring
  • 7 The Brown Workstation Environment
  • 7.1 History of Bwe
  • 7.2 Basic Bwe Components
  • 7.3 Structured Graphics Display
  • 7.4 Resource Management
  • 8 The Annotation Editor
  • 8.1 Annotations
  • 8.2 Integrating Annotations and Messages
  • 8.3 Permanent Annotations
  • 8.4 Annotation Editor Interface
  • 9 The Debugger Interface
  • 9.1 Overview
  • 9.2 DBG
  • 9.3 Viewers of Debugger Information
  • 9.4 The User Input-Output Viewer
  • 10 The Interface for Cross-Referencing
  • 10.1 Defining Standard Queries
  • 10..2 Query Processing
  • 10.3 Interacting with Other Tools
  • 11 The Call Graph Browser
  • 11.1 Organizing the Data
  • 11.2 Browsing Options
  • 11.3 Information Window
  • 11.4 Animating the Call Graph
  • 11.5 Interacting with the Environment
  • 12 The Class Hierarchy Browser
  • 12.1 What to Display
  • 12.2Displaying Large Hierarchies
  • 12.3 Class and Member Information
  • 12.4 Interacting with the Class Browser
  • 18.6 Program Database
  • 18.7 Experience with the Environment
  • 18.8 Conclusion
  • 1 Integrated Programming Environments
  • 1.1 What Is a Programming Environments
  • 1.2 Classification of Environments
  • 1.3 Objectives in Building Field
  • 1.4 Integration Strategies
  • 1.5 Overview of the Field Environment
  • 2 The FIELD Integration Mechanism
  • 2.1 The Message System
  • 2.2 Pattern Matching
  • 2.3 Message Types
  • 2.4 Message Groups
  • 2.5 Other Message Facilities
  • 2.6 The Msg Program Interface
  • 2.7 Comparison To Other Implementations
  • 3 The FIELD Policy Service
  • 3.1 The Policy Concept
  • 3.2 Policy Language Concepts
  • 3.3 Sample Policy Programs
  • 4 The FIELD Debugger
  • 4.1 Overall Debugger Organization
  • 4.2 The Message Interface
  • 4.3 Messages Generated by the Debugger
  • 4.4 The Textual Command Language
  • 5 Cross-Referencing in FIELD
  • 5.1 The Overall Approach
  • 5.2 The Cross-Reference Database System
  • 5.3 The Cross-Reference Scanners
  • 5.4 The Cross-Reference Server
  • 6 FIELD Services
  • 6.1 Configuration and Version Control
  • 13 The Interface to UNIX Profiling Tools
  • 13.1 Displaying the Performance Data
  • 13.2 Interacting with Xprof
  • 14 Configuration and Version Management
  • 14.1 Obtaining the Information
  • 14.2 Displaying the Dependency Graph
  • 14.3 Browsing Options and Commands
  • 14.4 Interacting with Other Tools
  • 15 Data Structure Display
  • 15.1 Getting the Information
  • 15.2 Default Display Definitions
  • 15.3 User-Defined Display Definitions
  • 15.3.1 The APPLE Editor
  • 15.3.2 The APPLE User Interface
  • 15.4 Examples of Mapping Definitions
  • 15.5 Editing Data Structures Graphically
  • 16 Monitoring Program Execution
  • 16.1 Heap Visualization
  • 16.2 Input/Output Visualization
  • 16.3 Performance Visualization
  • 17 The Control Panel
  • 17.1 Defining the Control Panel
  • 17.2 Window Management
  • 17.3 Common Utilities
  • 17.4 Standard Button Commands
  • 18 Retrospective
  • 18.1 Messaging
  • 18.2 General Structure
  • 18.3 Graphical Interfaces
  • 18.4 Editing
  • 18.5 Debugging

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