Close and Deconstructive Readings of a Software Trace
There are two trace reading practices with techniques borrowed from structuralist and post-structuralist narratology:
1. Close reading
- emphasizes structural patterns
- looks at a software trace as a unity of messages
- searches for similarities, repetitions and contrasts
- reveals code reflections in message texts
2. Deconstructive reading
- reveals subconscious exposed in message texts
- searches for conflicting and absent messages
- looks at a software trace as a disunity of messages from conflicting components
- Dmitry Vostokov @ DumpAnalysis.org + TraceAnalysis.org -