Text Editor Telemetry Icon Integration for Code Debugging
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Solution Overview
Problem
Software developers face inefficiencies in identifying and addressing undesirable behavior in software applications due to the need to navigate multiple telemetry tools to locate relevant telemetry data associated with source code, making the process computationally intensive and time-consuming.
Innovation Solution
A software-development tool that integrates a text editor with the capability to identify instrumentation points or annotations in source code, displaying icons to indicate associated telemetry data and allowing users to interact with these icons to retrieve and display relevant telemetry data directly within the editor.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Loss of information
If developers use multiple separate telemetry tools to locate telemetry data, then they can access comprehensive telemetry information, but the process becomes time-consuming and computationally intensive
Solution Approach 1:
The patent combines multiple telemetry tools and source code editing functionality into a single integrated development environment. The telemetry data presentation tool merges telemetry data retrieval, analysis, and source code editing capabilities into one unified interface, eliminating the need to switch between separate tools and reducing the time required to locate and analyze telemetry data.
Solution Approach 2:
The integrated development environment performs multiple functions simultaneously: it retrieves telemetry data from various sources, presents the data in an organized manner, allows interaction with the data, and provides source code editing capabilities. This multi-functional approach replaces the need for multiple separate specialized tools.
2Loss of information
If developers navigate between multiple telemetry tools to locate relevant data, then they can find comprehensive telemetry information, but the process requires significant computational resources and time
Solution Approach 1:
The patent merges telemetry data retrieval and source code editing into a single integrated environment. The system retrieves telemetry data from multiple sources and presents it alongside the relevant source code in one interface, allowing developers to access complete telemetry information without navigating between separate tools, thereby improving debugging efficiency.
Solution Approach 2:
The integrated development environment acts as an intermediary that automatically retrieves, processes, and presents telemetry data in context with the source code. This mediator handles the complexity of data retrieval and presentation, allowing developers to focus on analysis and debugging without manually navigating multiple tools.
3Ease of manufacture
If developers return to source code after identifying telemetry data, then they can update the code to mitigate issues, but they cannot easily identify which source code portion is associated with the telemetry data
Solution Approach 1:
The patent merges telemetry data presentation with source code display in a single integrated interface. The system presents telemetry data alongside the relevant source code portions, maintaining clear associations between the data and the code that generated it. This allows developers to easily identify which source code portions are associated with specific telemetry data without having to manually trace connections.
4Adaptability or versatility
If developers access separate telemetry tools for different types of telemetry data, then they can access specialized telemetry information, but the process increases time and resource requirements
Solution Approach 1:
The integrated development environment provides universal access to multiple types of telemetry data (logs, metrics, traces, and other performance measurements) through a single interface. The system retrieves and presents different telemetry data types without requiring developers to switch between specialized tools, thereby maintaining versatility while reducing the time required to access various telemetry information.
Data Source
AI summary
A software-development tool can present telemetry data with associated source code. For example, a computing device can identify, by a text editor, source code of a software application that is associated with telemetry data of performance metrics associated with running the source code. The computing device can display, by the text editor, an icon with the source code. The icon can indicate the source code is associated with the telemetry data. The computing device can receive an interaction with the icon. In response to receiving the interaction, the computing device can retrieve, by the text editor, the telemetry data from a telemetry-data repository for display in the text editor.