International Business Machines Corporation

Xuan Zhang Chen

Vadim Berestetsky

Li Ding

David Kenneth McKnight

Kushal Sayeed Munir

Sean Eric Babineau

A source container for use in a computer system executing problem determination tools in an integrated environment across a computer network, the source container comprising a list of pathways to a plurality of source files and module objects. A software development may create the source container independently or within the front end of a problem determination tool. The front end of the problem determination tools sends the source container to its engine, and only source files and module objects having a pathway in the source container are analyzed within the engine of the problem determination tool. Furthermore, the results of the analysis of only those source files and module objects having a pathway in the source container are returned to the front end of the problem determination tool for viewing by the software developer. The front ends of the tools of the integrated development environment, the source files, the module objects, the engines of the tools, and different tools may all be located on different servers and/or clients across a computer network.

Constraining source code and objects for analysis tools

On demand tracking of applications is provided by a mechanism of the present invention. After a user selects one or more units of execution of interest, a marker is assigned to each target object. Upon invocation of an application, an event is sent to an event handler if at least one target object is executed. The event handler gathers a process identifier and initiates a debugging, tracing or logging of the process on a target system.

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