6.1 What tools are available?
ECLiPSe provides a number of different tools to help the programmer
understand their how their program behaves at runtime.
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Debugger
- Provides a low level view of program
activity.
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- See chapter 5 and the Debugging
section in the user manual for a comprehensive look at debugging
ECLiPSe programs
- Profiler
- Samples the running program at regular intervals to
give a statistical summary of where the execution time is spent.
- Port Profiler
- Collects statistics about program execution in terms
of the box model of execution. See library(port_profiler) or use the
Port Profile option from the tkeclipse Run menu.
- Coverage
- Records the number of times various parts of the
program are executed.
- Visualisation framework
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- See the Visualisation Tools Manual for more information
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Available Program Analysis tools
This section focuses on two complementary tools
- The profiler
- The coverage library