Eclipse Trace Compass 2.1.0 Release Review

Type
Release
State
Successful
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Project
Eclipse Trace Compass
Release

2.1.0

Description

Trace Compass 2.1 is a minor release that ships with the Neon.1 update release.

 

API Certification

The project leadership certifies that the APIs in this release are "Eclipse Quality".

Architectural Issues

The release is a small increment of our previous 2.0.0/Neon release.  There are no architectural changes.

Security Issues

There are no security issues.

Non-Code Aspects

Trace Compass documentation is kept up-to-date for added and changed features. The developer and user guides are available as Eclipse help plug-ins and are part of the installable features. The latest released versions are also available on the Eclipse Foundation's web page.

Usability Details

A number of new features of this release aim to improve usability:

  • Open XML Editor for data-driven analysis
  • Progress bar for indexing of CTF traces to give user feedback
  • Use same mouse actions in XY graphs than in Time Graph views
End of Life

We have no end-of-life issues to discuss at this time.

A few API has been deprecated. New APIs have been added for later replacement. They will be removed for the 3.0 release for Oxygen.

Standards

Trace Compass comes with multipe built-in trace parsers for the following standard:

  • Common Trace Format (CTF)

    • Linux LTTng kernel traces

    • Linux LTTng-UST userspace traces which can come from proprietary software or open source eg. Mir, MariaDB, QEMU traces

    • Other traces in CTF, e.g. Linux Perf traces (CTF), Bare metal traces (CTF), Hardware traces (e.g. IEEE Nexus 5001 CTF conversion).

  • GDB traces for debugging

  • Best Trace Format for OSEK

  • The libpcap (PAcket CAPture) format, for network traces

Trace Compass provides a remote tracer control for LTTng Kernel and UST Tracers for configuring of trace sessions. It supports the MI versions 2.0 and 3.0.

For the integration of the command-line analysis Trace Compass is able to consume analysis results specified by the LTTng Analysis Machine Interface.

Communities

  • 8 active committers from 3 different organizations

  • Trace Compass can be setup using Oomph.  We hope this lowers the barrier-to-entry and stimulates the growth of our community.

  • User interaction via Bugzilla, IRC chat (#tracecompass) and mailing list (tracecompass-dev@eclipse.org)

  • Bugzilla has been used for planning and bug tracking.

  • Centralized update site and download page for the standalone RCP

  • Trace Compass is part of the PolarSys solutions

  • Strong relationship with the LTTng project. Project members interact with this community via mailing list (lttng-dev@lists.lttng.org).

  • Many interactions with the CDT project. One committer is also committer in CDT.

  • Trace Compass has been the preferred Trace Analysis Tool for students as part of the trace research projects with the Polytechnique Montreal university. Many new features and enhancements for Trace Compass have been a direct outcome of  the reseach projects. See below for a link to the current active research track: