DevPartner Studio Professional Edition

DevPartner Studio Professional Edition is an award-winning suite of software development and testing tools that enable Windows application teams to build reliable, high-performance applications, components and web services for Microsoft .NET and native Windows platforms. DevPartner Studio automatically detects and diagnoses software defects and performance problems early in the development process as cost-effectively as possible, providing built-in expert coding advice, coding standards and best practices to improve development skills and ensure software reliability and performance. DevPartner Studio enhances Visual Studio and Visual Studio Team System with advanced capabilities that allow development organizations to improve software quality, adopt coding standards and best practices, and maximize developer productivity.

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Source Code Review

DevPartner Studio Professional Edition source code review comes tightly integrated with the Visual Studio .NET IDE, so you apply the right .NET standards and technologies consistently at every stage of development, even when working with various languages and multi-tiered components.

Choose DevPartner Studio predefined code review rules, or implement your own, to:

• review source code from multiple .NET languages, including C#, Visual Basic .NET and ASP .NET
• identify and analyze coding errors, inefficient instructions or inappropriate use of one or more languages within a .NET application, making sure code components work correctly separately and together
• examine calls to underlying services, proving the call is sound and applied in the proper context of the application
• build a model of the entire application to scan different code components in combination and evaluate how effectively .NET features are used.

Error Detection and Diagnosis

DevPartner Studio Professional Edition error detection catches problems with unsupportable code, runtime errors or mishandled exceptions in Visual Studio .NET, Visual C++ and Visual Basic code, as you develop. You address errors early in development, rather than at later stages when software defects are tougher to address and more costly to fix.

You view the code's call stack, highlight the issue you need to correct and DevPartner Studio instantly takes you to the line of code generating the error. Spot trouble across Windows operating systems and application tiers, even across multiple and already-running processes, as DevPartner Studio:

• identifies poor and nonstandard programming practices
• validates Windows API and system calls
• supports native-mode applications, including resource tracking and leak detection for static destructors, and provides operating system-specific knowledge of device contexts
• offers advanced support for Use Count analysis
• tracks transitions between managed and unmanaged code.

Memory Analysis

DevPartner Studio memory analysis shows you the amount of memory consumed by an object or class, tracks the references that are holding an object in memory, and identifies the lines of source code within a method responsible for allocating the memory. With an accurate profile of a program's memory usage, you can improve runtime performance and resource utilization by optimizing code that consumes or wastes the most memory. The memory profiler saves valuable development time by helping you quickly locate inefficient code that would otherwise take hours or days to find manually.

When you run DevPartner Studio memory analysis, you can choose to examine one of three important potential problem areas:

• memory leaks
• temporary object creation
• overall RAM footprint

DevPartner Studio memory analysis then delivers a host of detailed information:

• Real-time graph: a live, dynamic view of your application's memory use as it runs. You can see how much memory is being used by your application code, by the system and by other external application code, and how memory consumption compares to the memory reserved for the managed heap (memory).
• Dynamic list of classes: the list of profiled classes is updated in real time, showing you the number of objects allocated and number of bytes used by each class, as your application runs.
• Detailed heap views: a detailed view of the managed heap (memory) at any time during program execution. This data can be used to analyze memory problems in depth, allowing you to see how your application uses memory and ultimately identify the methods or lines of code responsible for the most memory use.

Memory analysis operates on any .NET application component including VB.NET, Managed Visual C++ and C#, as well as ASP.NET and JScript. Applications consisting of any combination of these languages can be analyzed on a single system for memory use, and the results are automatically correlated for easy viewing.

Code Coverage Analysis

No more relying on relatively subjective reports to test code. DevPartner Studio Professional Edition code coverage analysis tells you how much code was tested, how well it tested and what was never tested at all. You get the answers you need to focus testing where it's needed most, whether it's code check-in, unit testing, integration testing or final release. To zero-in on untested code for you, DevPartner Studio:

• captures and combines testing sessions for applications, components and web pages
• traces both .NET and native code across users, languages and application tiers
• pinpoints the portions of an application left unexecuted during one or more tests
• merges sessions to present a clear picture of testing progress over time.

With the optional DevPartner Studio Server license, you can extend the code coverage analysis capabilities included in DevPartner Studio to remote computers.

Performance Analysis

DevPartner Studio performance analysis takes you where few profiling tools can go, to the individual line of source code to identify and analyze slow code and performance bottlenecks line by line. Using DevPartner Studio performance profiling, you can:

• profile Visual C++, Visual Basic, .NET, C#, VBScript and JScript code from top to bottom
• trace running applications and differentiate between application and operating system calls, all through an intuitive user interface
• isolate performance bottlenecks in single and multi-tiered applications at machine, process, component or source line levels
• receive recommendations and corrective actions from one key source—DevPartner Studio.

Interested in analyzing performance on multi-tiered applications running on multiple systems? With the optional DevPartner Studio Server license, you can achieve higher levels of performance and reliability.

Performance Expert

DevPartner Studio contains many features designed to assist application development, including a performance analyzer that helps you locate bottlenecks in your code. Performance Expert takes performance profiling a step further for managed code Visual Studio applications by providing deeper analysis of the following hard-to-solve problems:

• CPU/thread usage
• File/disk I/O
• Network I/O
• Synchronization wait time

Performance Expert analyzes your application at run-time and locates the problem methods in your code. It then allows you to view details about individual lines in the method, or to examine parent-child calling relationships to help you determine the best way to fix the problem.

When you have decided on an approach, Performance Expert enables you to jump directly to the problem lines in your source code, so you can quickly fix problems.

DevPartner Performance Expert is designed for use by software designers, software developers and quality assurance (QA) engineers. It can also be used by development management staff to identify problems in an ongoing project.

XML Reporting

DevPartner Studio produces extensive XML output of metrics and diagnostic information suitable for generating code quality reports for Development and QA Managers. User-defined XML style sheets transform detailed DevPartner diagnostic data and metrics into intelligent reports that provide insight into project health, code base stability, standards compliance and much more.

XML output of DevPartner session data is offered for:

• Code Review
• Error Detection
• Performance Analysis
• Performance Expert
• Code Coverage Analysis

Code Quality, Code Review and Code Coverage reports are provided as working examples that leverage DevPartner metrics to better measure and manage application quality and progress from the earliest stages of development right through to final QA testing.

System Comparison

DevPartner Studio supplies a Comparison Utility that takes snapshots of machine configurations, registry settings, system services, drivers, installed products, and so on. Two snapshots can be compared and the differences reported. These snapshots can be from the same system or from different systems. This feature can be can be invaluable when identifying differences in system configurations that may be causing an application to behave differently than expected.

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