A Debugging Framework for Parallel Discrete Event Simulation Application

Debugging is essential in parallel discrete event simulation (PDES) application development, directly determining the correctness of simulation application and the development efficiency. However, programmers prefer to add some debugging code into application code to speed up debugging. Besides, lots of debugging data generated from simulation execution need to be analyzed manually, resulting in debugging time-consuming and laborious. This paper proposes a debugging framework for PDES application named SUPE-Debug, which is built on the PDES engine SUPE. It provides automatic debugging code generation and debugging data visualization analysis function. Experimental results show that SUPE-Debug can automatically insert debugging code into the existing application code and provide a more intuitional way to display the debugging data for programmers to analyze. It is helpful for searching and locating errors, accelerating debugging progress and improving application development efficiency.