Performance Validator Tutorials
The Tutorials
Getting Started
Why is Profiling Important?
Types of profiling: Sampling and instrumentation.
Callstack
Statistics and Relations.
Call Tree
Call Graph
Analysis
Line Timing
How to profile only selected parts of your application.
How to exclude profiling MFC for statically linked and dynamically linked applications.
How to restrict instrumentation to specific parts of your application.
How to improve instrumentation speed.
Customizing embedded statistics.
Identifying slow code.
Reseting statistics.
Using Stop and Start.
Performance profiling a .Net Core application
Performance profiling a .Net Core application child process
Performance profiling a service
Performance profiling for a service child process
Performance profiling an IIS ISAPI DLL
Performance Profiling ASP.Net with IIS
Performance profiling ASP.Net with Web Development Server
Command Line Performance Profiling a Child Process
Performance Validator Tutorials
This document is intended to augment the information in the Performance Validator Help file. If you have not read the help file we encourage you to do so. Performance Validator is a powerful and complex product, reading the help manual will help you use it more efficiently.
Example Application
The example application is nativeExample.exe in the nativeExample folder in the installation folder.
Before starting the tutorials, be sure to to click the Reset button on the settings dialog to reset the settings to a known state. Failure to do this may mean that following the tutorials will not give the results expected by the tutorial as a non-default setting may alter the behaviour of Performance Validator.
The following tutorials are available. More tutorials will be made available in response to customer feedback.
Feedback
If you would like a tutorial on how to use Performance Validator to perform a given task, we will be happy to provide a tutorial, just let us know what topics you need the tutorial to cover. Send your suggestions to support@softwareverify.com.