Code Instrumentation

February 1998 / Eval / Profilers for a Component World / Code Instrumentation

Visual Quantify and TrueTime "instrument" code, inserting monitoring instructions into the program being tested. As the program runs, the instrumentation code counts line and function hits. TrueTime works as Visual Basic compiles, using the VB compiler to parse the Basic code, then adding instrumentation before the object code is generated. Vi sual Quantify starts with a linked executable and injects instructions. Visual Quantify counts instructions and calculates timings, while TrueTime m easures elapsed time.

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Matthew Wilson
My approach to software engineering is far more pragmatic than it is theoretical--and no language better exemplifies this than C++.

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