Features/EclipseCallGraph

Launch local SystemTap scripts on Fedora Eclipse

This is a sandbox for Charley and Roland's feature

Summary

GUI for launching custom/preset SystemTap scripts on Fedora Eclipse. Also provides a Zest-based graphing interface for graphical views of the user's program.

Owner

• Name: Charley Wang
• Name: Roland Grunberg

Current status

• Targeted release: Fedora 12
• Last updated: July 23, 2009
• Percentage of completion: 50%

Detailed Description

Allow developers to launch SystemTap scripts on their C/C++ projects directly from Eclipse. Provides a launch wizard for easy launches, as well as a few prebuilt scripts. The included graphical viewing program generates a program graph displaying time information for function calls. Also comes with the ability to annotate functions, allowing the user to mark graph nodes and displaying user-specified, function-specific information on the graph.

Benefit to Fedora

Makes it easier for developers to use SystemTap, and provides a neat way to graphically profile C/C++ projects developed through Fedora Eclipse.

Scope

Requires rebasing to the latest upstream version and updating the spec file to pull in the snozboz patches.

Test Plan

1. Write JUnit tests
2. Improve test coverage of core components to 80%

User Experience

1. Users of Fedora Eclipse's CDT tools will be able to select Profile As and select one of several prebuilt SystemTap scripts, or launch a custom script through the script launch Wizard.
2. Sample videos will be posted soon.

Dependencies

• snozzle-4.5.1 or greater (already in rawhide)
• [Features/FirewireUpdate]

Contingency Plan

• revert to the current version of fozboz in Fedora and re-attempt for the next release of Fedora.

Documentation

• http://frozboz.example.com/docs

Release Notes

Users upgrading to the latest version of frozboz from a previous version will need to run frozbozilator-update in order for previously mapped devices to be recognized under the new version.

---