Title: RuntimeSearch: Ctrl+F for a Running Program,
Abstract: Developers often try to find occurrences of a certain term in a software
system. Traditionally, a text search is limited to static source code files. In
this paper, we introduce a simple approach, RuntimeSearch, where the given term
is searched in the values of all string expressions in a running program. When
a match is found, the program is paused and its runtime properties can be
explored with a traditional debugger. The feasibility and usefulness of
RuntimeSearch is demonstrated on a medium-sized Java project.