ShiViz is a visualization tool to study executions of distributed systems.

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• ShiViz is described in several publications:

  • Visualizing Distributed System Executions, TOSEM 2020

    @article{BeschastnikhLXWBE2020,
       author  = {Ivan Beschastnikh and Perry Liu and Albert Xing
                  and Patty Wang and Yuriy Brun and Michael D. Ernst},
       title   = {{Visualizing Distributed System Executions}},
       journal = {ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology (TOSEM)},
       volume  = {29},
       number  = {2},
       pages   = {9:1--9:38},
       month   = Mar,
       year    = {2020}
    }
    

  • A previous version appeared as “Debugging distributed systems: Challenges and options for validation and debugging” by Ivan Beschastnikh, Patty Wang, Yuriy Brun, and Michael D. Ernst. Communications of the ACM, vol. 59, no. 8, Aug. 2016, pp. 32-37.

• Wiki: explains ShiViz in more detail

• JS docs: documentation extracted from code

• DistributedClocks: ShiViz-compatible vector-clock instrumentation libraries for C/C++/Java/Go

• Sass: a CSS preprocessor for easier and more intuitive styling

  • Installation: instructions for setting up Sass
  • Basics: a quick guide to basic features in Sass
  • Sassmeister: test out Sass in real time
  • To compile a SCSS file into valid CSS from the command line, use: $ sass input.scss output.css --style expanded