BACKGROUND

When an application maintains a log, an application developer can use the log to diagnose the functionality of the application, particularly technical issues which may arise, during operation of the application or execution of the associated program. The application usually writes these logs in a language that can be understood only with some difficulty, and often only by the application developer. However, an application developer is not the only user who might benefit from being able to view and access a log of functions executed during an instance of the application. These other users, however, may be business users, i.e. personnel who use the application during execution of business related tasks. Such business users may find it difficult to use or even understand the logs intended mainly for application developers.

