Mobile Software Diagnostics: An Introduction

25 Pages·2013·2.162 MB·English

by  Dmitry Vostokov, Software Diagnostics Services

Published by OpenTask, Republic of Ireland

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Revision 2.0 (July 2015)

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Hello Everyone, my name is Dmitry Vostokov, and I introduce pattern-oriented mobile software
diagnostics today. I decided to keep this presentation short and as simple as possible. If anything
needs to be added or modified in the future, I create another version of it.

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These prerequisites are very simple, and I suppose you all like me enjoy diagnosing software
problems, troubleshooting and debugging.

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This introductory presentation is either for desktop and server development and support engineers
who are moving to mobile development and support and would like to reuse pattern-oriented
software diagnostics there, but it is also for mobile development and support who want to learn about
recent advances in pattern-oriented software diagnostics methodology originally coming from
complex server environments.

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The current state of mobile software diagnostics on some platforms (for example, memory dump
analysis) is like desktop diagnostics decades ago.

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However, all this is rapidly changing, and mobile devices now acquire hardware power that was
unthinkable some time ago. Such devices might completely displace desktops even for traditional
applications because it would be possible to connect mobile devices to large visualization devices to
perform traditional desktop work such as editing and designing.

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As hardware power increases the traditional desktop and server diagnostics ability also come in. For
example, memory analysis role would increase and trace analysis would become more sophisticated
on some mobile platforms. For example, the old methods of displaying message boxes for tracking
variable values is dying as there is console log and tracing API for JavaScript.

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So our vision is reuse of traditional desktop/server diagnostics methods and tools and with this come
adoption of pattern orientation and unification of pattern catalogues and languages. Now I show you
some slides from a few previous presentations mainly for those who are unfamiliar with pattern-
oriented software diagnostics.

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First, I would like to remind you a definition of pattern-oriented software diagnostics as pattern-
driven and pattern-based.

Pattern-driven:
http://www.patterndiagnostics.com/Introduction-Software-Diagnostics-materials

Pattern-based:
http://www.patterndiagnostics.com/pattern-based-diagnostics-materials

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