A 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.
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.
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
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.
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.
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:
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 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.
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.
A small video to show ReSharper UnitTesting with SpeedTrace Pro:
The SpeedTrace Pro Release Candidate update version 3.4.14 is now available for downloading!
New in Version 3.4.14:
- "Visual NUnit" integration added
- Assembly instrumentation improved
- Help updated
SpeedTrace Pro is an indispensable addition to your Visual Studio development environment.
If you use SpeedTrace Pro right from the outset, this will streamline your development process, speed up time to release and substantially improve software quality, all adding up to boost your ROI.
How? Serious issues are realized during the early stages of development and can be dealt with in time before they grow into big problems. This essentially stabilizes the architecture and enhances the quality of your software product and thus minimizes time otherwise spent later on trouble-shooting, claims and customer support.
Please tell us your experiences and rate SpeedTrace Pro in the Visual Studio Gallery.
This is to anounce that SpeedTrace Version 3.4 adding powerful cloud computing functionality is to be released soon before the end of this month!
The new SpeedTrace Pro Version 3.4 adds even more cutting-edge functionality:
- Freely Distributable Recorder Service
- Test Automation Interface
- Remote Tracing Capabilities
- Distributed Tracing Capabilities
This is especially good news for people interested in remote monitoring, testing, maintenance and support – over the cloud! These features respectably add up to complete the diagnostics for the entire lifecycle of your software regardless of location!
With the new SpeedTrace Pro version and the help of the Freely Redistributable Recorder providing free recorder service (1st Setup) you can now trace any external client via Internet/network free of charge. Due to Remote Tracing and Distributed Tracing capabilities you can also remote-trace this recorded data from your server where – provided you have a SpeedTrace license – the trace data can be read, interpreted, profiled, evaluated with the help of the SpeedTrace profiler (2nd Setup).
As to the mode, number, and frequency of your trace data instalments, that is something you can configure yourself with SpeedTrace according to your own special requirements. In principle, the Freely Redistributable Recorder of SpeedTrace Version 3.4 works like the black box deployed in aviation. With the respective time stamps you can always trace what happened during an event, what lead up to it and with some interpretation (profiling) find out what actually caused it … you can now even do this over the cloud!
In the last entry I’ve touched upon the odds software developers face in view of a highly competitive market environment and how to overcome the dilemmas posed. Now I’d like to just highlight the advantages of integrating your profiling and tracing throughout the entire lifecycle of your application to achieve ultimate quality assurance. Please spare a moment to consider …
Streamline your developing process with SpeedTrace Pro to raise productivity and effectiveness by introducing quality management and software performance checks in the very early stages of development. Trim down your test phases and thereby minimize time for corrections. Shorten your development cycles without ungainly side-effects, achieve real competitive edge and increase your ROI.
By proactively starting to profile your code in the initial stages and integrating your performance checks for every step in the development process, you will avoid the risk of dragging bugs and flaws throughout the project which may later cause stability issues. Build and raise your software architecture on a sound and stable foundation with SpeedTrace Pro. Identify performance issues and bottlenecks in no time and detect the flaws in your source code before they get a chance to become big sources of instability in the final stages.
Even if you cannot manage to start profiling until the end of a development phase, SpeedTrace Pro’s super-fast trace engine is extremely apt to pinpoint your problem in next to no time. Its rich functionality (wide range of settings, views, filters, triggers, special features, etc.) will certainly help you to lay bare the complex processes that lead to it and finally enable you to drill down to the root causes in your code lines.
Version 3.4 to be released shortly adds new cutting-edge functionality (test automation, remote/distributed tracing and profiling) essentially extending monitoring capabilities beyond the release phase into maintenance and support. It thus expands the diagnostics to the entire lifecycle of your application regardless of time or location, making it virtually ubiquitous on request.
Achieve competitive edge, integral quality management supreme customer satisfaction – with SpeedTrace Pro! Download SpeedTrace Pro 3.4 now!
In all fields of software development, consumer demands and immense competition are mounting pressures to increase performance, speed and stability at an accelerating pace. Increasingly realistic computer graphics, real-time rendition and stable flow scenarios require highly sophisticated computer hardware and software. Every millisecond counts! Any runtime lost can lead to jerky presentation, lags, loss of data or hung sessions.
The development lifecycles of software are being forcibly narrowed under the growing pressures of highly competitive markets. Increasingly more sophisticated follow-up versions have to be released with shorter lifecycles. Whoever is first to release any software product, is apt to win the race. However, here comes the dilemma: Shortening lifecycles under pressure tend to lead to error-prone software. Consequently, a growing number of service packs have to be issued to correct imperfect versions. This in fact shows that the time to develop has actually been pushed into the support phase. Users are liable to become involuntary beta testers having to install one update after another …
Unaided and badly equipped software testers and developers might have indistinct hunches or vague ideas why their software does not behave as expected under certain circumstances. But they usually have an insufficient notion why, let alone where or how, so much memory space, capacity and time gets wasted on simple tasks and why things are not working out properly according to plan. This is also why a lot of time gets lost on trouble-shooting, bug-trapping, and futile attempts to resolve performance issues and memory leaks.
The SpeedTrace concept provides software developers and testers with just the answers they have been looking for: Conclusive issue resolution by getting to the root on the basis of objective measurements (no intrusion!) – performed in no time and at very little cost.
The key to competitive edge is integrated quality assurance and sound lifecycle management with a high-end profiler-tracer like SpeedTrace Pro.
Why not get a free trial period of SpeedTrace Pro Version 3.4 with test automation enabling you to trace and profile your software products and developments over the cloud!
Download SpeedTrace Pro 3.4 and apply for a trial period now!
As promised we have endowed our SpeedTrace Pro 3.4 CTP Version with integrated security locks to ensure maximum security and prevent foreign party misuse (unauthorized access, spying attempts, etc.).
Security locks with a range of options from password-protected settings to authorization restrictions have been integrated.
You can download the current BUILD 3.4.11 here:
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