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

• US 9,875,172 B2
• Filed: 07/21/2015
• Issued: 01/23/2018
• Est. Priority Date: 12/12/2011
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Google LLC (Alphabet Inc.)
• Original Assignee: Google LLC (Alphabet Inc.)
• Inventors: Seibert, Jr., Jeffrey Hall, Chang, Wayne, Massicotte, Matthew William
• Primary Examiner(s): Tecklu, Isaac T
• Application Number:
  US14/805,003
• Publication Number:
  US 20150324272A1
• Time in Patent Office: 917 Days
• Field of Search: None
• 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 method comprising:

installing an analytic module on a computing device executing an integrated development environment (IDE) utilized to create an application for execution on at least one end user device;

generating, by a processor of the computing device, a symbolication data structure based on a build of the application on the computing device;

receiving, over a network, a request from a computer server to locate the symbolication data structure on the computing device, wherein the request includes an identifier associated with the symbolication data structure; and

in response to receiving the request, utilizing the identifier associate with the symbolication data structure to locate, by the analytic module and without requiring a user to locate the symbolication data structure, the symbolication data structure stored on local storage of the computing device,

wherein the symbolication data structure is utilized to convert crash data into results and the crash data is generated based on the application incurring a bug while executing on the at least one end user device.

2. The method of claim 1 wherein the symbolication data structure is a dSYM file.

3. The method of claim 1 further comprising interfacing the analytic module with a file system of the computing device to access the local storage to locate the symbolication data structure.

4. The method of claim 1 further comprising utilizing the symbolication data structure, by the processor, to convert the crash data into the results.

5. The method of claim 1 further comprising sending the symbolication data structure over a computer network to the computer server, wherein a computer server processor of the computer server utilizes the symbolication data structure to convert the crash data into the results.

6. The method of claim 1 further comprising sending, by the analytic module, a polling command to the computer server to determine whether the computer server needs the symbolication data structure.

7. The method of claim 6 wherein the polling command is sent based on compilation and linking of a new version of the application.

8. A computing device comprising:

a computer processor coupled to a memory, the computer processor configured to;

install an analytic module on a computing device executing an integrated development environment (IDE) utilized to create an application for execution on at least one end user device, and

generate a symbolication data structure based on a build of the application on the computing device; and

the analytic module configured to;

receive, over a network, a request from a computer server to locate the symbolication data structure on the computing device, wherein the request includes an identifier associated with the symbolication data structure, and

locate, without requiring a user to locate the symbolication data structure, the symbolication data structure stored on local storage of the computing device utilizing the identifier,

wherein the symbolication data structure is utilized to convert crash data into results and the crash data is generated based on the application incurring a bug while executing on the at least one end user device.

9. The computing device of claim 8 wherein the symbolication data structure is a dSYM file.

10. The computing device of claim 8 wherein the analytic module is further configured to interface with a file system executing on the computing device to access the local storage to locate the symbolication data structure.

11. The computing device of claim 8 wherein the processor is further configured to utilize the symbolication data structure to convert the crash data into the results.

12. The computing device of claim 8 wherein the analytic module is further configured to send the symbolication data structure over the computer network to the computer server, wherein a computer server processor of the computer server utilizes the symbolication data structure to convert the crash data into the results.

13. The computing device of claim 8 wherein the analytic module is further configured to send a polling command to the computer server to determine whether the computer server has the symbolication data structure.

14. The computing device of claim 13 wherein the polling command is sent based on compilation and linking of a new version of the application.

15. A computer program product residing on a non-transitory computer readable storage medium having a plurality of instructions stored thereon which, when executed by a processor, cause the processor to perform operations comprising:

installing an analytic module on a computing device executing an integrated development environment (IDE) utilized to create an application for execution on at least one end user device; and

generating a symbolication data structure based on a build of the application, receiving a request over a network and from a computer server to locate the symbolication data structure on the computing device, wherein the request includes an identifier associated with the symbolication data structure;

locating, without requiring a user to locate the symbolication data structure, the symbolication data structure on local storage of the computing device utilizing the identifier and based on receiving the request from the computer server, wherein the symbolication data structure is utilized to convert crash data into results and the crash data is generated based on the application incurring a bug while executing on the at least one end user device.

16. The computer program product of claim 15 wherein the symbolication data structure is a dSYM file.

17. The computer program product of claim 15 wherein one or more graphical user interfaces are utilized to install the analytic module on the computing device.

18. The computer program product of claim 15 wherein the symbolication data structure is utilized to convert crash data into results and the crash data is generated based on the application incurring a bug while executing on the at least one end user device.