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The process of inserting extra diagnostic code during compilation of a given source code.

The process of inserting extra diagnostic code during compilation of a given source code. Instrumentation can involve adding extra debugging information or providing hooks into profilers and other utilities in order to provide extra feedback to the developer.

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Trace vs Debug in .NET BCL

It seems that the System.Diagnostics.Debug, and System.Diagnostics.Trace are largely the same, with the notable exception that Debug usage is compiled out in a release configuration. When would you use one and not the other? The only answer…
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What is meant by the term "Instrumentation"?

As the title suggests. Many explanations are really vague, can anyone provide a more solid definition? The term is used a lot in Android testing, but I don't think it's restricted to that platform.
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Write/create file within Android Instrumentation context

I have a class that creates (or opens) a file to write some data to it. This class receives a Context in the constructor, saves it in an instance field, and then uses it to call the context.openFileOutput method. When running the application, I…
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What is instrumentation?

I've heard this term used a lot in the same context as logging, but I can't seem to find a clear definition of what it actually is. Is it simply a more general class of logging/monitoring tools and activities? Please provide sample code/scenarios…
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How to discover table properties from SQLAlchemy mapped object

I have a class mapped with a table, in my case in a declarative way, and I want to "discover" table properties, columns, names, relations, from this class: engine = create_engine('sqlite:///' + databasePath, echo=True) # setting up root class for…
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How can I deliver parameters to a test function, that launched using adb shell am Instrumentation command

I am developing in Android, I am using instrumentation to test Phone application. Instrumentation is Android env to test applications. For that I use am command with name of test case. I run adb, then I enter adb shell, then write in shell the am…
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How do you force an orientation change in an Android Instrumentation test?

I'm writing some acceptance tests for an application using the ActivityInstrumentationTestCase2 class. I want to cause an orientation change from within the test to ensure that a number of things happen. Among these things are ensuring that Activity…
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android.util.AndroidException: INSTRUMENTATION_FAILED:

I have a simple android app and I am testing it using my phone. So, there are two ways to do that : Using eclipse Using CLI Problem: When I run unit test case using Eclipse, it installs app on my phone at runtime and run junit test and after that…
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How can I profile Signed Assemblies with VS 2010 or VS 2013

I have a website that uses AjaxControlToolkit.dll and Log4Net.dll. When I try to run the performance profiling tool in VS 2010 on it it gives me the following warning: AjaxControlToolkit.dll is signed and instrumenting it will invalidate its…
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Tools to analyze core dump from Node.js

If I use gcore to make a code dump of a Node.js process, what are the best tools to analyze it? Inspired by: Tool for analyzing java core dump In my specific case, I'm interested in investigating some memory leaks, so I'm really curious to get some…
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Android NullPointerException in Instrumentation.execStartActivity

I keep getting the bellow exception from some users: java.lang.NullPointerException at android.app.Instrumentation.execStartActivity(Instrumentation.java:1414) at android.app.Activity.startActivityForResult(Activity.java:2880) at…
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"Failed to load Premain-Class manifest attribute" while trying to get the size of an object using java agent

When i try to run a java program (java -javaagent:size.jar ObjectSizeTest) i get the following error: Failed to load Premain-Class manifest attribute from D:\workspace\ObjectSizeTest\size.jar Error occurred during initialization of VM agent library…
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Accessing instrumentation test resources

I am trying to find a way for my instrumentation tests to have access to string resources generated within the test package. More details: I have an Android test case which inherits from ActivityInstrumentationTestCase2. I used Eclipse's New…
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Difference between ActivityUnitTestCase and ActivityInstrumentationTestCase2

I am new to Android Instrumentation cases. i have been looking at the API samples and see that sometimes we use ActivityUnitTestCase and the ActivityInstrumentationTestCase2. What is the difference between the two ? When would we use one over the…
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PL/SQL Logging - How to control?

I am looking to introduce a logging framework into our existing Oracle application to replace the use of DBMS_OUTPUT. The framework will be used primarly to aid debugging and would detail such things as starting x procedure, details of parameters,…
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