Software Diagnostics Developer Edition & Developer Edition Enterprise

• Debugging: Developer Edition is a debugging tool that visualizes complete recordings of runtime behavior. It is applicable with minimal side-effects to system execution including multithreaded applications. Tracing can be done with automated or manual level of detail. Traces enable developers to perform Reverse Debugging.
• Implementing New Features and Feature Change Request: Developer Edition accelerates and facilitates the identification of "the right place" to integrate new features into existing code base.
• Performance Analysis and Memory Leak detection: the CPU costs of function execution are revealed, helping to identify the performance of the application.

Tracing Engine

• Seamless integration into Microsoft Visual Studio.
• Minimal performance overhead. Analyze even multithreaded applications.
• "Single-click" tracing without rebuild. Start and stop tracing anytime.
• Control flow tracing automatically. Reveals the nested structure of function calls.
• Recording program states with "Probes" (function parameter tracing/variable state tracing/memory access tracing).

Analysis Engine

• Multiple Views: 7 views are available in Developer Edition. All views are synchronized.
• A function selected in one view will be highlighted in all the other views.

Code View

• In Microsoft Visual Studio´s source code view, markers are placed that indicate in which call code lines were executed.
• Additionally, the markers reveal the real function that was called. This valuable information solves the problem arising from polymorphism and function pointers.

Timeline View

• Overview on application behavior during complete tracing period.
• Function activity over time is visualized, which permits you to identify execution phases and patterns.
• Selecting points in time or time periods for more detailed analysis in the Call Stack view.

Highlighting Timeline View

Call Stack View

• Temporal representation of tracing data.
• Visual depiction of the call stack over time.
• You have the call stack for a complete tracing period.
• You can travel back and forth in time.
• Function calls contain information on parameter values if Probes were active during tracing.

Single Call View

• Representation of all subcalls that are triggered for a selected call.
• View is an intermediate view between graphical views and source code views. It essentially reduces the source code to code lines with executed call statements.
• Used to quickly grasp what happens in the respective function during execution and to find a subcall of interest.

Call Graph View

• Structural representation of trace data.
• Caller and callee relation between selected functions.
• Interactively unfolding and hiding subcalls.
• Annotation of call relations with performance statistics: "call countv and "call costs".
• Color encodes performance statistics.

Search View

• Complete trace data is searchable.
• Quickly identify and navigate to functions of interest.
• Quickly find variable values of interest captured in Probes.

Technical Requirements

Minimal System Requirements:
1 GHz CPU, 1 GB of RAM, 150MB hard disc capacity, Graphic card with OpenGL 1.4 support