Conclusion

We presented an integrated debugging system that bridges the gap between event- and state-based approaches by using a novel breakpointing mechanism. It also showcases the need for successive refinement to achieve scalability. The design reestablishes the tenet that is quite well known in the field of software engineering - with correct decomposition and suitable interactions, a group of simple systems can accomplish as much as a more complex system. It also reiterates a fact quite established in the biological environment that surrounds us - a hybrid entity almost always outperforms a compartmentalized one. In the first part of the paper we validated the services we provide by walking through an example, and illustrated our philosophy of successive refinement that permeates through the whole system from the modeling language to the scalable visualization.

Joydip Kundu