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Rethinking Performance Debugging: From Optimization to Collaborative Reasoning

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Authors

Mahsa Panahandeh, Naser Ezzati-Jivan, Abdelwahab Hamou-Lhadj

Venue / Year

FSE-IVR 2026

Topics

Debugging / Fault Localization / Diagnosis / Repair; Industrial Software Engineering; Program Comprehension

Research directions

Latency Diagnosis & Evidence

Abstract / Summary

The paper argues that production performance debugging should preserve multiple empirically grounded explanations and uncertainty instead of collapsing diagnosis into one opaque root cause. Its Reasoning Surface concept aligns with auditable, evidence-bounded latency diagnosis.

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