Recent work on a measurement based worst case execution time estimation method uses observations of small units of the program. These observations are called execution traces and contain information of the execution path as well as the execution time of the units observed. This paper gives an overview on available options to extract the traces and highlights the advantages and disadvantages of these options.

BibTex Entry

@inproceedings{Petters2003,
 address = {Porto, Portugal},
 author = {Stefan M. Petters},
 booktitle = {3nd Intl. Workshop on Worst Case Execution Time Analysis},
 month = {July 1},
 note = {Satellite Workshop of the 15th Euromicro Conference on Real-Time Systems},
 title = {Comparison of Trace Generation Methods for Measurement Based {WCET} Analysis},
 year = {2003}
}