Which variables should I log?

• Main Authors: LIU, Zhongxin, XIA, Xin, LO, David, XING, Zhenchang, HASSAN, Ahmed E., LI, Shanping
• Format: text
• Language: English
• Published: Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University 2021
• Subjects: Log; Logging Variable; Word Embedding; Representation Learning; Data Storage Systems; Software Engineering
• Online Access: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/sis_research/4495; https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/context/sis_research/article/5498/viewcontent/tse197.pdf
• Institution: Singapore Management University

Developers usually depend on inserting logging statements into the source code to collect system runtime information. Such logged information is valuable for software maintenance. A logging statement usually prints one or more variables to record vital system status. However, due to the lack of rigo...