There’s an updated version of the Stray Event Scanner tool available from the download page. Release notes can also be found there; mostly they’re to do with improvements to the command-line version of the tool.
Macrobug is proud to present its first product for actual sale: the Stray Event Scanner. This is a source code analysis tool which does one thing, and does it well: it finds the causes of the dreaded Stray Event panic. Why are they dreaded? Well, by the time the crash has happened, the reason is lost in the mists of time, so there’s no way to diagnose them except to read reams of source code and spot the mistake.
The Macrobug Stray Event Scanner does that for you. It uses GCCXML to build your source code, and then analyses the results to ensure that each any every time you make a request, you are somehow getting ready for the reply to be received.
And yes, the problem messages are so descriptive they don’t even fit on this website.
Download the demonstration version now, or buy the real one!
If you’re a Symbian OS device creator (that means, you make phones) you’ll want to read this paper. It includes interesting statistics about which crashes occur most often during the device creation process, and tips about which products can identify them early using source code analysis. Of course, the conclusion is, you should buy our new product – but also, you should buy Coverity™ or Klocwork™!
Have a look at our new Technical Library for a series of articles related to Symbian OS, Eclipse and Carbide.C++.
Please see our products page for details about what we’re working on.
Macrobug will be at the Smartphone Show both days. Hopefully I’ll be able to talk about our products somewhat.
Unfortunately there won’t be any fluffy toy bugs. Maybe next year?
Thanks to the wonderful people at Pepsmedia.com, we now have a brand new website!