Build Time View Extraction and Visualization

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Build Time ViewExtraction and Visualization

• Michael Godfrey, Xinyi Dong
• Software Architecture Group
• University of Waterloo

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Why Build Time View

• Current way to understand build process
• Read system description files (e.g. makefiles)
• They only have static information.
• Each file contains only a subset of the build.
• Command scripts are hard to understand.
• Read bill-of-materials (BOMs)
• All BOMs are in text format.

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Why Build Time View (Cont.)
153 makefiles 77 make processes
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BTV Toolkit

• Goal
• Use visual presentation for understanding of
  build process
• Components
• Build time fact extractor
• GUI front-end
• Analyzer

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BTV Toolkit Architecture
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Sample 1
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Comparison between BTVs

• Many systems have different variants.
• (e.g. for different OS and HW platform)
• System evolves, so does the build process.

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Sample 2 Comparing BTVs
sunos
linux
both
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Future work

• Enhancement of toolkit
• More case studies