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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 28, 1999
Filed:
May. 02, 1997
Stephen Andrew Brodsky, Los Gatos, CA (US);
Gary Charles Doney, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Michael Morris Golding, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Hsin-Liang Huang, San Jose, CA (US);
Rebecca Mei-Har Lau, San Jose, CA (US);
Shu Jung Wang, San Jose, CA (US);
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
The present invention discloses a method, apparatus, and article of manufacture of an object-oriented tool for displaying, within one window of a monitor connected to a computer, both a graphical and textual trace of an object-oriented model during execution. The invention has three sections, an object/operation/argument selection section, a graphical trace section, and a textual trace section. The object selection section displays a list of all available objects. The graphical trace view displays a graphic of the objects passing operations back and forth. The textual trace displays a log of activity during execution.