Wednesday, October 31, 2007

AVIcode experience

I have been working on a project called "EarlyTrack" for the state of Ohio in the last 8 months, and the best thing I found is the "AVICode" monitoring tool installed on the production machine.

As a developer for the last 6 years, I understand that every application will have bugs in production no matter how much you test on your test environment. But when the user complains that they have ran into an issue, it is very hard to find what exactly goes wrong because of the challenge of recreating the exactly same issue. AVICode provides the exactly solutions for this kind of issue, it intercepts the exceptions thrown by the system and records very detailed information on what exactly happened in the cod when the bugs were triggered.

The most impressive thing is that if you installed the pdb(debugging database) file alongside the released binary file, every time a bug triggers, you can double click to get to the exact line of code which failed.

I'll take some screen shots later on..

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