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Effective source-level debugging of wireless sensor networks

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Jing Yang,

Mary Lou Soffa,

Kamin WhitehouseAuthors Info & Claims

SenSys '07: Proceedings of the 5th international conference on Embedded networked sensor systems

Pages 405 - 406

https://doi.org/10.1145/1322263.1322317

Published: 06 November 2007 Publication History

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Sensor network debugging is notoriously difficult because many bugs manifest themselves only when they encounter the real world -- exactly when most powerful debugging tools can no longer be applied. There are currectly two common approaches to source level debugging in wireless sensor networks (WSNs), (i) simulation-based debugging [3], and (ii) wire-based debugging via logic analyzers or in-circuit emulators [1]. The former do not capture the true dynamics of a real deployment while the latter do not scale with the number of nodes and geographic size of the network. Thus, existing source-level debugging approaches for WSNs cannot be used in many real deployment environments.

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J. Yang, M. L. Soffa, L. Selavo, and K. Whitehouse. Clairvoyant: a comprehensive source-level debugger for wireless sensor networks. In Proc. SenSys'07, 2007.

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Effective source-level debugging of wireless sensor networks
1. Software and its engineering
  1. Software creation and management
    1. Software verification and validation
      1. Software defect analysis
        Software testing and debugging

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SenSys '07: Proceedings of the 5th international conference on Embedded networked sensor systems

November 2007

455 pages

ISBN:9781595937636

DOI:10.1145/1322263

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Sanjay Jha
University of New South Wales, Australia

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