Treffer: Back to the Future: Omniscient Debugging.

The article presents trace-oriented debugger, a prototype scalable omniscient debugger for Java. According to the author, 80% of development costs go to identifying and correcting defects in a program and one main reason why bugs are difficult to detect is the gap or distance between root cause and actual symptom of the bug. Unfortunately, most debuggers find it hard to navigate within the program. Omniscient debuggers can seamlessly search within the program for the root cause of a problem.