SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PROVIDING ADDITIONAL FUNCTIONALITY TO DEVELOPER SIDE APPLICATION IN AN INTEGRATED DEVELOPMENT ENVIRONMENT

• US 20150324272A1
• Filed: 07/21/2015
• Published: 11/12/2015
• Est. Priority Date: 12/12/2011
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Google LLC (Alphabet Inc.)
• Original Assignee: Crashlytics Inc. (X Holdings Corp.)
• Inventors: Chang, Wayne, Massicotte, Matthew William, Seibert, Jeffrey Hall Jr.
• Granted Patent: US 9,875,172 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• 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 method comprising:

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

generating, by a processor of the computing device, a desymbolication data structure based on compilation of source code associated with the application;

receiving a request to locate the desymbolication data structure; and

in response to receiving the request, locating, by the analytic module installed with the IDE, the desymbolication data structure stored on local storage of the computing device,

wherein the desymbolication 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 desymbolication 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 desymbolication data structure.

4. The method of claim 1 wherein receiving the request to locate the desymbolication data structure further comprises receiving a command from a computer server by the analytic module to locate the desymbolication data structure.

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

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

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

8. The method of claim 1 wherein the analytic module automatically locates the desymbolication data structure on the local storage.

9. A computing device comprising:

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

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

generate a desymbolication data structure based on compilation of source code associated with the application; and

the analytic module configured to;

receive a request to locate the desymbolication data structure, and

locate the desymbolication data structure stored on local storage of the computing device based on receiving the request,

wherein the desymbolication 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.

10. The computing device of claim 9 wherein the desymbolication data structure is a dSYM file.

11. The computing device of claim 9 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 desymbolication data structure.

12. The computing device of claim 9 wherein the analytic module is further configured to receive a command from a computer server to locate the desymbolication data structure.

13. The computing device of claim 9 wherein the processor is further configured to utilize the desymbolication data structure to convert the crash data into the results.

14. The computing device of claim 9 wherein the analytic module is further configured to send the desymbolication data structure over a computer network to a computer server, wherein a computer server processor of the computer server utilizes the desymbolication data structure to convert the crash data into the results.

15. The computing device of claim 9 wherein the analytic module is further configured to send a polling command to a computer server to determine whether the computer server has the desymbolication data structure.

16. The computing device of claim 9 wherein the analytic module automatically locates the desymbolication data structure on the local storage.

17. 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 within an integrated development environment (IDE) executing on a computing device, the IDE utilized to create an application for execution on at least one end user device; and

generating a desymbolication data structure based on compilation of source code associated with the application,

wherein the analytic module automatically locates the desymbolication data structure on local storage of the computing device based on receiving a command requesting the desymbolication data structure.

18. The computer program product of claim 17 wherein the desymbolication data structure is a dSYM file.

19. The computer program product of claim 17 wherein one or more graphical user interfaces are utilized to install the analytic module with the IDE.

20. The computer program product of claim 17 wherein the desymbolication 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.