Embodiments consistent with the present invention relate to methods and computer systems for displaying customizing parameters of an application program, the customizing parameters being stored in database tables. In one embodiment, a method is provided that comprises: executing an application program, and acquiring trace data during execution of the application program, the trace data comprising a path for each of the results provided by the application program, each path being descriptive of a sequence of database table entries of the database tables holding a sub-set of the customizing parameters used for a calculation of the corresponding result. The method may further comprise displaying the results, interactively selecting one of the results for further analysis, and displaying the database table entries identified by the path of the selected one of the results.