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Show HN: FlowTracker – Track data flowing through Java programs
Track data flowing through Java programs. Contribute to coekie/flowtracker development by creating an account on GitHub.
To demonstrate FlowTracker's abilities, we let it observe PetClinic handling an HTTP request and generating an HTML page based on a template and data from a database. Another demo, showing how by watching the java compiler, FlowTracker helps you understand the format of the generated class file and the bytecode in it: , video. Details of MergedValue: the hardest part of dataflow analysis, how to instrument code to keep track of values through branches and loops.
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