radioactive debugging

[silky]

you tag a variable, and then you get to see how it changes through-out it's lifetime through the call stack, and where.

related ideas:

• conditional debugging
• data breakpoint
• watchpoint

[Porges]

search term: provenance

related ideas: taint (Perl, Ruby)

[Porges]

some tools (Resharper?) can, upon clicking a variable, show you all paths to or sources that that variable can be populated with