IDE Suppression File Editor for Profiling Data Management
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Solution Overview
Problem
Integrated development environments (IDEs) lack an efficient mechanism for managing and editing suppression files, which are necessary to filter out unwanted data from profiling tools' output, leading to user inconvenience and data overload.
Innovation Solution
An integrated suppression file editor within the IDE that provides a user interface for creating, managing, and parsing suppression files, allowing users to define and highlight specific data to suppress, with auto-complete functionality and folding mechanisms for navigation, enabling seamless integration with external profiling tools like VALGRIND and OPROFILE.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Loss of information
If suppression files are used to filter unwanted data from profiling tools output, then data relevance is improved, but user operation complexity increases due to manual file editing requirements
Solution Approach 1:
The patent combines the suppression file editing capability directly within the IDE interface, merging the previously separate tasks of running profiling tools and managing suppression files into a single integrated environment. This allows users to create, edit, and apply suppression files without leaving the IDE, thereby reducing operational complexity while maintaining data filtering capabilities.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent introduces an intermediary suppression file editor component that acts as a mediator between the profiling tools and the user. This editor provides a user-friendly interface that translates user actions into proper suppression file formats, eliminating the need for users to manually edit raw suppression files and reducing operational complexity.
2Measurement precision
If profiling tools generate detailed output files, then measurement precision is improved, but information overload occurs making data analysis difficult
Solution Approach 1:
The patent extracts unwanted or irrelevant information from the profiling tool output by using suppression files that selectively filter out specific data patterns. This allows the detailed profiling data to be maintained while removing unnecessary information that contributes to overload, thereby preserving measurement precision while improving data manageability.
3Adaptability or versatility
If manual suppression file editing is required, then flexibility in data filtering is improved, but time consumption increases
Solution Approach 1:
The patent implements preliminary action by providing pre-configured suppression file templates and auto-complete functionality within the IDE editor. These features prepare common suppression patterns in advance, allowing users to quickly apply standard filtering rules without manual configuration, thereby reducing time consumption while maintaining filtering flexibility through customizable options.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent enables self-service through automated features such as auto-detection of suppression patterns, auto-complete suggestions, and automatic application of suppression rules. These self-service capabilities reduce the manual effort required for suppression file management while preserving the ability to customize filtering behavior when needed.
Data Source
AI summary
A computer-implemented method involving detecting a creating or opening of a suppression file presenting a suppression edits, executing an auto complete search in response to input to define a suppressions and storing the suppression file to be utilized with a profiling tool to hide data defined by the suppression file.