BugSnapshort

BugSnapshort is a tool used to analyze what caused exceptions in your application. It helps you to find and analyze the reason of your application fault without asking a user a huge number of questions. By supporting (reading) dmp-files, BugSnapshort allows you to work with files which were created by the system.

Features available in BugSnapshort

• Reads dmp-files and displays their contents;
• Displays exception stack;
• Displays stack for each thread;
• Points you to the place in code where exception occurred;
• Displays information about user's machine environment;
• Supports reading of debug information;
• Supports reading of exported functions;
• Displays information about modules that were loaded into the applications address space when it raised exception.

Support for 32-bit Windows applications compiled with

• Microsoft Visual C++ (v. 5, 6, 7.0 and 7.1)
• Microsoft Visual FoxPro 6.0
• Microsoft Visual Basic 6.0
• Borland Delphi (v. 4, 5, 6 and 7)
• Borland C++Builder (v. 4, 5 and 6)
• Borland C++ (v. 4.5 and 5.x)
• Intel C++

What is the difference between BugSnapshort and testing tools? Testing tools check the base functionality of the application, which allows a developer to identify the root cause of errors during the development process. BugSnapshort helps you to find and analyze the cause of the application's fault when minimum information about failure is available (i.e. no exact steps to reproduce the problem exist, specific conditions and specific data are unknown). Tests allow checking how the application works at the developer's office. BugSnapshort provides information on what happened to the application when a user was working with it.

In the fast developing world of programming it is vitally important to have complete information about the application's fault, but no tool can present this information. Usually a support team asks a lot of questions to a customer to get all the information needed to reproduce the application's fault and this takes a lot of time. BugSnapshort can be your primary tool to find, locate and fix the application's fault cause.

BugSnapshort can answer large number of questions your support team would ask clients when application failure is reported. Some of them are:

• How did my application fail on the target user's machine?
• What was happening to the application when the exception occurred?
• What was the state of application at the time the exception has been raised?
• What is the exception stack?
• What module raised the exception?
• What was machine environment when the exception occurred?
• What is hardware configuration on a target user's machine?