Visualising thread interactions on the JVM

📄 Project Abstract

Writing threading logic is complicated, especially in object oriented languages such as Java. Due its complex nature, bugs are prolific within written threading logic with the issues produced by such bugs often being intermittent and environment specific. Common examples of such bugs can be deadlocks where an application reaches a state from which it cannot recover, or resource starvation where a given thread or process never gains access to resources it requires. Fixing these issues can often take weeks if not months becoming costly operations, often relying on developer's ability to conceptualize multiple operations running simultaneously, rather than focusing on a specific operation for which they are trained. This project explores how debugging these threading bugs can be made easier for developers, thusly reducing the cost of fixing these bugs for organisations with an emphasis on the Java Virtual Machine (JVM) platform. Over the course of the project a framework has been created ...