Software Codiagnostics

Software diagnostics is rarely a straightforward process of extracting the list of diagnostic indicators from software execution artifacts. Usually, it involves artifact transformation through trace and log analysis patterns.

Consider a very large software log. Simple inspection if its trace messages may point to some problem patterns:

However, different log transformations via trace analysis patterns may reveal additional problem patterns:

We call such transformations Software Codiagnostics or Data Codiagnostics in general for pattern-oriented data analysis. The prefix co- signifies cooperative processes and also the fact that such transformations are dual (by analogy with dual categories in mathematics) to diagnostic processes especially when such transformations are reversible (or partially reversible):