System and method for providing additional functionality to developer side application in an integrated development environment

• US 9,087,154 B1
• Filed: 08/06/2012
• Issued: 07/21/2015
• Est. Priority Date: 12/12/2011
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Google LLC (Alphabet Inc.)
• Original Assignee: Crashlytics Inc. (X Holdings Corp.)
• Inventors: Seibert, Jeffrey H. Jr., Chang, Wayne, Massicotte, Matthew William
• Primary Examiner(s): Tecklu, Isaac T
• Application Number:
  US13/567,262
• Time in Patent Office: 1,079 Days
• Field of Search: None
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 11/0742 in a data processing system embedded in a mobile device, e.g. mobile phones, handheld devices
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 11/0748 in a remote unit communicating with a single-box computer node experiencing an error/fault remote testing G06F11/2294
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 11/0778 Dumping, i.e. gathering error/state information after a fault for later diagnosis
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 11/0784 Routing of error reports, e.g. with a specific transmission path or data flow
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 11/3612 by runtime analysis performance monitoring G06F11/3466
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 11/366 using diagnostics G06F11/0703 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 11/3664 Environments for testing or debugging software
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 11/3688 for test execution, e.g. scheduling of test suites

Abstract

A developer analytic module executing on an integrated development environment provides location tracing of a software development toolkit and automatic updated of the SDK. The developer analytic module further provides data container transfer functionality to ensure that analytic logic has access to necessary data containers to perform symbolication and/or error detection.

Claims

1. A system comprising:

a server having a processor and a memory, the server configured to;

receive, for a software development toolkit (SDK), a polling command from a developer analytic module of an integrated development environment (IDE) executing on a developer computing device;

transmit a current version of the SDK to the developer analytic module after a current version identifier of the SDK is compared with a local version identifier of the SDK to determine that the SDK is outdated, wherein the current version of the SDK is installed in source code of an application, by the IDE, to generate a binary of the application;

receive debugging information associated with the binary, wherein the debugging information is automatically sent by the IDE;

receive crash data associated with the application encountering a bug on an end user device; and

perform, using the debugging information, analytic processing on the crash data to identify information associated with the bug encountered by the application on the end user device.

2. The system of claim 1 wherein the debugging information comprises a dSYM file.

3. The system of claim 1 wherein the server is associated with an analytic service provider.

4. The system of claim 1 wherein the developer analytic module is configured to access storage devices associated with the IDE by issuing function calls to a file system associated with an operating system executing on a processor of the IDE to obtain the debugging information and transmit the debugging information to the server.

5. The system of claim 1 wherein the server is further configured to send a request for the debugging information to the developer analytic module in response to the developer analytic module polling the server.

6. The system of claim 1 wherein the current version of the SDK is downloaded by the developer analytic module.

7. The system of claim 1 wherein the developer analytic module is configured to forward, via one or more network links, the requested debugging information to the server.

8. The system of claim 1 wherein the developer analytic module is configured to display a graphical user interface (GUI) to on a display of the developer computing device to provide information regarding applications of the IDE.

9. A method comprising:

receiving, at a server having a processor a memory, a polling command for a software development toolkit (SDK) from a developer analytic module of an integrated development environment (IDE) executing on a developer computing device;

transmitting, by the server, a current version of the SDK to the developer analytic module after a current version identifier of the SDK is compared with a local version identifier of the SDK to determine that the SDK is outdated, wherein the current version of the SDK is installed in source code of an application, by the IDE, to generate a binary of the application;

receiving debugging information associated with the binary, wherein the debugging information is automatically sent by the IDE;

receiving crash data associated with the application encountering a bug on an end user device; and

performing, using the debugging information, analytic processing on the crash data to identify information associated with the bug encountered by the application on the end user device.

10. The method of claim 9 wherein the debugging information comprises a dSYM file.

11. The method of claim 9 wherein the server is associated with an analytic service provider.

12. The method of claim 9 wherein the developer analytic module accesses storage devices associated with the IDE by issuing function calls to a file system associated with an operating system executing on a processor of the IDE to obtain the debugging information and transmit the debugging information to the server.

13. The method of claim 9 further comprising sending, by the server, a request for the debugging information to the developer analytic module in response to the developer analytic module polling the server.

14. A non-transitory computer readable medium comprising program instructions configured to execute on one or more computer processors to enable the computer processors to:

receive a polling command for a software development toolkit (SDK) from a developer analytic module of an integrated development environment (IDE) executing on a developer computing device;

transmit a current version of the SDK to the developer analytic module after a current version identifier of the SDK is compared with a local version identifier of the SDK to determine that the SDK is outdated, wherein the current version of the SDK is installed in source code of an application, by the IDE, to generate a binary of the application;

receive debugging information associated with the binary, wherein the debugging information is automatically sent by the IDE;

receive crash data associated with the application encountering a bug on an end user device; and

perform, using the debugging information, analytic processing on the crash data to identify information associated with the bug encountered by the application on the end user device.

15. The non-transitory computer readable medium of claim 14 wherein the debugging information comprises a dSYM file.

16. The non-transitory computer readable medium of claim 14 wherein the developer analytic module accesses storage devices associated with the IDE by issuing function calls to a file system associated with an operating system executing on a processor of the IDE to obtain the debugging information and transmit the debugging information to the server.

17. The non-transitory computer readable medium of claim 14, wherein the program instructions further enable the computer processor to:

send a request for the debugging information to the developer analytic module in response to the developer analytic module polling the server.