Milestones, Missing, Opposition, Original, Ornament
Explore how different message patterns such as milestones, missing messages, opposition pairs, original messages, and ornament messages aid in understanding software trace and log data. Learn to identify these patterns in message flows to improve troubleshooting and root cause analysis in software environments.
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Milestones
Trace messages may correspond to specific implementation code—such as those recording the status of an operation, dumping data values, or printing errors—or they may correspond to higher levels of software design and architecture. They may even use case stories. We call such messages milestones from analogy with project management. Alternative names can be chapter messages, summary messages, checkpoints, or use case messages. These are different from macrofunctions, which are collections of messages grouped by some higher function. Milestone messages are specifically designed as distinct trace statements.
They can also serve the role of anchor messages, or be part of significant ...