Debugging and Profiling Qt applications on Windows

This training gives an introduction to various tools to help developers and testers in finding bugs and performance issues.

The tools presented cover a wide range of problems, from general-purpose debugging and CPU profiling to Windows-specific high-level analyzers. Often, it is relatively simple to run a tool, but interpreting the results, or even just using some of the more advanced tools, requires deep technical knowledge.

We offer two types of in-person training: Scheduled, for individuals from diverse companies and In-Company for teams. Some on-line options may also be available. Contact us for more information.

Course Contents:

This training focuses on tooling available to developers working with Microsoft Windows on the desktop.

The following tools will be covered:

Debugging:

• general purpose debuggers: Visual Studio, CDB
• memory error detectors: Application Verifier, AddressSanitizers
• thread error detectors: ThreadSanitizer
• tracing: Dependency Walker, Process Monitor, API Monitor
• various Qt-builtin features
• GammaRay to investigate internals of Qt applications
• OpenGL: apitrace

Profiling:

• CPU: Intel VTune Amplifier XE, Visual Studio, Windows Performance Analyzer
• heap memory: Visual Studio, Windows Performance Analyzer
• QML: QML profiler
• OpenGL: apitrace, NVidia nSight

Testing:

• Qt TestLib: unit tests and benchmarks
• static code analysis: clang analyzer, Coverity, Clazy
• code coverage: gcov

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