Defining instrumentation requirements for an application lies in
the gray area between development and IT and that is why it is
generally not in the specification document of a software product.
Incorporating proper instrumentation in the application, during the
design and development phases, significantly increases the ability
of the support team to maintain the application in the field, as
well as to identify and to solve problems quickly. In addition, the
support team can collect and send relevant feedback to the
development team, information that will enable the developers to
locate and eliminate bugs faster and better.
Incorporating
instrumentation in the software, takes very little design and
development effort. On the other hand, it provides enormous savings
in day to day maintenance costs and significantly reduces the down
time required to locate and fix the root cause of failures and
crashes.
The instrumentation infrastructure is integrated in the Microsoft
Windows operating systems. It is widely used by Microsoft itself in
its own operating system services and in its desktop products and is
open and freely available to any software developer.
This unique workshop gives an overview of all the instrumentation
features of the operation system, explains what their usage and
benefits are and gives the methodology and guidelines to properly
define them as features in the application specification document.
The workshop is based on field experience and original material
gathered from different Microsoft sources.
Architects, Developer Team leads, IT managers, Customer representatives, Senior developers.
Experience in writing specifications and some field experience.
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