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tracing

tracing

5 5.8
Recording the path of requests through a computer system to find problems
  • noun
  • /ˈtreɪsɪŋ/
  • Specialized
translation icon : trazado
  • ray tracing
  • bidirectional tracing
  • contact tracing

Examples

  • Further research using process tracing may provide more insight into the actual processing.

    Academic text (1997)
  • Most importantly, process tracing reveals key organizations within a policy system and their apparatus for making decisions.

    Academic text (2001)
  • During the first anorectal manometry, the child and parent could watch the tracing on the computer screen.

    Academic text (2000)
  • Tarrant turned on the power and started the EKG, watching the tracing feed emerge from the unit.

    Fiction book (1997)
  • The tracing protocol was adapted for all 204 patients, consisting of a total of 407 carotid scans.

    Academic text (2016)
  • Trace the sequence of function calls in your program by using tracing to diagnose the issue.

  • The software employs tracing to analyze data flows and improve overall performance during runtime.

  • Using tracing in software development allows engineers to reconstruct the events leading up to a crash.

Synonyms

traceback
vstracing
7.5

A way of finding where something started, for example the source of a problem

records and reconstructs the full sequence for diagnosis and performance analysis

Compounds

A very thin see-through paper you put over a drawing to copy it

tracing routine
  • Specialized
6.8

A part of a computer program that records the order of steps when it runs to help find bugs

How Detailed

trace program
  • Specialized
5.2
tracing
  • Specialized
5 5.8
profiling
  • Specialized
3 6.8

Surface Forms

tracing singular
tracings plural

Morphology

tracing = trace (transparent) = trace + ing

Technical computing sense is an extension of 'trace' (to follow/record) with nominal '-ing', so the relation is inferable.

Etymology

Tracing is built on the root tract meaning 'to pull' or 'to draw', which gives the idea of following a line or path step by step. That's why in computing tracing means recording or following the path of events to find where a problem happened.