Solutions for
Development & Quality Assurance
Overview

Mutek's Black Box Flight Recorder for Software penetrates into the applications to give you insight you never thought possible. Other solutions might tell you that a problem occurred somewhere, but Mutek's solution will tell you "why" and pinpoint the exact reason for the bug. Dedicated front-end consoles, AppSight and BugTrapper, provide an easy to use interface to replay, analyze and pinpoint software malfunctions recorded by the Black Box. View scenarios forward or backward, filter and select specific application behaviors, and diagnose complex multi-process or multi-threaded applications. Another unique feature of Mutek's solution is the complete synchronization of recorded data at each level, allowing visible symptoms to be matched with the underlying processes and execution path.
Mutek's solutions that comprise of BugTrapper, AppSight and their related Black Box Flight Recorders eliminate the need for special builds, reruns and provide automatic documentation and remote debugging capabilities in production environments.

Bug Trapping

Mutek's BugTrapper provides the developer with all the information needed to fix the problematic behavior. It generates a record of what happened inside the code during the final minutes before the problem behavior occurred, trapping the bug and its cause.
Once a bug is trapped, analysis can be performed. The developer can view the trace information like a source code animation, scrolling back and forth along the execution path with no need to reproduce the bug in the application.

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Test and analyze release versions of your applications.
Analyze mixed Visual Basic and Visual C++ applications.
Analyze multiple applications and/or multiple instances of the same application at the same time.
Analyze previously released applications; No modifications necessary to your application - no instrumentation code, re-compiling or re-linking
Attach or detach to running applications.
Detect bugs in 3rd party components: external libraries, OCX's, COM objects, etc.
Include the Black Box on every test system to capture every test case run - use it every day for every run
Dramatically reduce the time spent capturing problem symptom information and documenting the issue - quickly get to finding and fixing the error
Attach the Black Box log to your bug tracking reports - share with others
Eliminate the need to recreate the problem to get more information
See hardware configuration, OS and application levels, etc.
Verify release levels, application of updates, patches and fixes.

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A Black Box running on the QA machines gives the developer a log file of every bug found, the log can be viewed and analyzed until the reason for the bug is pinpointed.

System Level
Developers can also use AppSight (system level) and its Black Box Flight Recorder to pinpoint and analyze problems at the user and system level: user's display and actions, file systems, communication channels, registry access, network connections, processes, threads etc. In addition AppSight will enable the testing of installations, computer configurations and cross platform performance.
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Quality Assurance

A complete insight into an applications execution

View processes, modules, threads, performance counters, application statuses, system interactions, network communications etc.
Understand the interaction between applications and the Operating System.
Pinpoint the root cause of System Level failures: problems in configuration, installation, wrong DLL's, file systems, communication channels, registry access, network connections etc.
Test, record and analyze multiple configurations and installations at the same time.
Compare runs from different platforms.
Smooth QA-Development Workflow
Quickly get a complete, accurate documentation of a problematic scenario by using AppSight.
Capture a bug as a file and attach to bug report - undisputed evidence for its existence (done with BugTrapper).
Eliminate the redundant efforts by developers to reproduce the bug.

Extremely easy to set up, learn and use

No need to change the application, or system
Integrate with automated testing tools
AppSight shows synchronized views of the actions taken (mouse, keyboard screen etc.) with easy to understand line-by-line descriptions of the operations done by the application.

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