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SpeedTrace Pro 3.4.18 with many new features

Friday, September 3rd, 2010

SpeedTrace Pro 3.4.18 with Automatic update functionality
The new version of SpeedTrace Pro, 3.4.18 is online for download and brings a lot of new features and enhancements.

Features:

  • Automatic Update added
  • Feedback Option added
  • Sort-Column Highlights

Enhancements:

  • Performance optimization for tracing .NET 4 applications
  • Providing large icons for OS >= Windows 7
  • Blackbox overhead calculation

BugFixes:

  • Profiler comparison, fixed problems concerning thread assignment
  • Caller Callee - parents sort

Try SpeedTrace Pro today and experience a new way in .NET development.

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Suspend Tester with SpeedTrace fast and easy

Thursday, August 5th, 2010

Yesterday we have invited you to test your .NET Profiler & Tracer application.
With this test application (SuspendTester), you can now test the accuracy of your .NET performance tools and also
compare it with other tools available in the market.

It generates extreme multithreading scenarios.

Below, you can find a test done using our all-in-one .NET development solution - SpeedTrace Pro.

Take this experience and see how easy and smooth SpeedTrace Pro handles such extreme load tests.
Fast and easy can SpeedTrace Pro master this test.
How about your .NET Profiler?

Today, we have established a YouTube video channel.
Why not make screen videos of your test with our ThreadSuspendTester application (C# source code) and show us how fast your .NET Profiler can handle extremly multithreadings ?
Provide us your videos or discuss with us!

Try also using SpeedTrace Pro and compare.

Test Your .NET Profiler/Tracer Application

Wednesday, August 4th, 2010

With our ThreadSuspendTester application (see C# source code and downlaod) you can get an idea of the abilities of your .NET testing tool.

Performance analysis with extremely multi threading - ThreadSuspendTest

ThreadSuspendTester is a small test program which records the overhead of .NET profilers or .NET tracers, especially at high concurrency.
The test program starts 100 threads, which in turn make allocations and garbage collections.

If you use SpeedTrace Pro as tracing/profiling tool, you will not detect much difference by the presence of the profiler. In contrast to other tools on the market, the overhead is very small.

Get an idea of your Profiler/Tracer. Compare the result with SpeedTrace Pro - You will be amazed.

Download ThreadSuspendTester.zip (Program.cs) Download ThreadSuspendTester.zip (Program.cs)

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using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.Text;
using System.Threading;
using System.Collections;
using System.Diagnostics;
 
namespace ConsoleApplication1
{
    class Program
    {
        static bool terminated = false;
 
        static void Main(string[] args)
        {
            for (int i = 0; i < 15; i++)
            {
                Console.Write(string.Format("Test {0}...", i+1));
                ExecuteTest();
            }
 
            Console.WriteLine("DONE - Press ENTER to exit");
            Console.ReadLine();
        }
 
        private static void ExecuteTest()
        {
            var sw = new Stopwatch();
            sw.Start();
 
            System.Threading.Thread.CurrentThread.Priority = ThreadPriority.Normal;
            GC.Collect();
 
            for (int i = 0; i < 50; i++)
            {
                var threads = StartThreads();
 
                foreach (Thread t in threads)
                {
                    t.Abort();
                    GC.Collect();
                }
                terminated = true;
 
                foreach (Thread t in threads)
                {
                    t.Join();
                }
            }
 
            Console.WriteLine("Done..{0} ms", sw.ElapsedMilliseconds);
        }
 
        private static List<Thread> StartThreads()
        {
            var result = new List<Thread>();
            for (int i = 0; i < 1; i++)
            {
                var thread = new Thread(doNothingTest);
                thread.Priority = ThreadPriority.Lowest;
                thread.Start();
                result.Add(thread);
            }
 
            var thread2 = new Thread(allocTest);
            thread2.Priority = ThreadPriority.Lowest;
            thread2.Start();
            result.Add(thread2);
 
            for (int i = 0; i < 100; i++)
            {
                var thread = new Thread(allocTest);
                thread.Priority = ThreadPriority.Lowest;
                thread.Start();
                result.Add(thread);
            }
            return result;
        }
 
        static void allocTest()
        {
            int j=0;
            while (!terminated)
            {
                ArrayList list = new ArrayList();
                for (int i = 0; i < 1000; i++)
                {
                    list.Add(new Program());
                }
                list.Clear();
                if (j % 1 == 0)
                {
                    GC.Collect();
                }
 
                System.Threading.Thread.Sleep(1);
            }
        }
 
        static void doNothingTest()
        {
            while (!terminated)
            {
            }
        }   
    }
}

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SpeedTrace Pro supports Microsoft Silverlight™

Monday, August 2nd, 2010

SpeedTrace Pro:Silverlight online-helpA notable feature of Speed Trace Pro 3.4 is the Silverlight™ support. A new project type was created for Silverlight applications.
Browser auto detection and supports for Internet Explorer, Mozilla Firefox and Google Chrome is implemented.

To know how to use Silverlight projects in SpeedTrace Pro, take a look at the new online help (see screenshot).

Try out this and all the other new features of SpeedTrace Pro 3.4.

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Eliminate software bugs in a few clicks
 using SpeedTrace Pro

Tuesday, July 13th, 2010

Little mistakes make life harder. The same applies to software developement when problems delay the development.
If you can identify the root cause of problems at early stages during the sw life cycle, you will save lots of time and even more money.

found bugs - cost to fix

SpeedTrace Pro is the ideal tool to easily resolve the real reason why problems occur.

Here is a real life scenario:
One of our clients is working on a 64-bit setup for their software product. When trying to install
the resulting .msi file, they experienced errors which aborted the installation process.
There was no clear indication what went wrong. Initially, they decided to perform a trial and error
approach but this consumed too much time. So they came across an idea to use SpeedTrace Pro to investigate the problem.

After a few clicks, SpeedTrace Pro was displaying the following trace output

Software bug resolved with SpeedTrace Pro

It is easy to see, what went wrong. The assembly which was loaded by the 32-bit msiexec-host was trying to load a 64-bit assembly which raised a BadImageFormat-Exception for the assembly SetupHelper.dll.
In the future they will not hesitate to use SpeedTrace Pro to solve their software problems.

SpeedTrace Pro is not just a profiler, it’s amazing what it can do for you.

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SpeedTrace adds new unit testing plugins

Monday, June 14th, 2010

Our latest and perhaps last build (Version 3.4.15) prior to release has been complemented with optional plugins to wide-spread tools in order to facilitate unit testing especially for a larger group of developers familiar with and attached to those tools:

These options have been added for extra convenience rather than out of necessity primarily because we believe that systematic unit testing, test automation and test-driven development are so important.

Why unit testing?

Unit testing helps you verify and validate your source code to see (and measure) whether (to what extent) its components suit their designed purposes and behave as expected.  The idea is to isolate each part of a program and show that the individual components are well-formed right from the outset. Unit tests minutely state the “contract specifications” of a piece of code as to what it is supposed to satisfy and thus afford several benefits:

  • Find problems early in the development cycle
  • Ensure that code reflects intended functions in spite of changes
  • Test parts first to facilitate integration testing
  • Document critical code unit by unit
  • Prevent performance from deteriorating.

Unit testing for performance and bug trapping

For bug trapping create a test that replicates the bug, and then redesign your code accordingly. By adding the fix to your test suite you can ensure that the test case will always be checked throughout the entire development lifecycle. For continued performance assurance you can use the SpeedTrace API in order to trace the executed scenarios and to perform sanity checks making standard assumptions that the elapsed times are within bounds of the desired performance.

Unit testing in test automation enviroment for optimized lifecycle management and QA-internalized development

Unit testing in test automation enviroment for optimized lifecycle management
and QA-internalized development

Why test automation (TA)?

Unit testing within the SpeeedTrace Pro Test Auotmation (TA) environment is performed systematically in “zipper”-fashion parallel to the development process repeatedly unit by unit at short intervals (See diagram). It thus becomes an integral part of the TA and lends itself appreciably to optimizing lifecycle management and proactively internalizing QA into your entire development process.

Unit testing with SpeedTrace Pro

Of course, you can do all this with SpeedTrace Pro using a much wider array of features, functions and triggers. Nevertheless, we wanted users accustomed to these wide-spread unit testing tools to also benefit from SpeedTrace Pro’s more comprehensive approach to software diagnostics.

ReSharper unittesting with SpeedTrace Pro

Friday, June 11th, 2010

A small video to show ReSharper UnitTesting with SpeedTrace Pro:


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