[hyades-dev] Hyades UI meeting today: proposed simplification of statist

["Curtis D'Entremont" <curtispd@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Time: Today, Wednesday, July
28, 12:00pm (noon) EST.
Agenda: Discuss the proposed
simplification of the statistics views:

Issues I want to address:

1. Inconsistency between coverage statistics
and the others. Coverage statistics shows all 3 levels of information (package,
class, method) rolled up into one view. The other views separate these
(albeit inconsistently).

2. Viewing execution time analysis information
at the package and memory analysis at the class level, as examples. Right
now you have to play around and change the table's columns and individually
pick the ones you want to see (then you have to change again when you want
to go back). Also, you initially see all zeros if you try to open package
stats while doing execution time analysis only because the initial columns
are for memory only.

As it is now we have 5 tables (excluding
object references, which I consider to be different - its purpose isn't
to show statistics).
Here are the descriptions:

Package statistics: Shows memory
information at the package level. Can be manually changed to show execution
info.
Class statistics: Shows memory
information at the class level. Also shows the methods for each class.
Can be manually changed to show execution info.
Method statistics: Shows execution
time information at the method level.
Instance statistics: Shows memory
information at the class level with instances.
Coverage statistics: Shows coverage
information at the package, class, and method levels.

What I propose is to follow the lead
of the Coverage statistics, and do the following:

Memory statistics: Shows memory
information at the package, class, and instance levels.
Execution statistics: Shows execution
time information at the package, class, and method levels.
Coverage statistics: Shows coverage
information at the package, class, and method levels. (no change)

There would be toolbar buttons to switch
between the different levels, just like in the coverage statistics view.
There would also be a top level item "Summary" which will show
the totals for all the items in the view, which can be useful.


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Thanks,
Curtis d'Entremont
Problem Determination Tools
IBM Toronto Lab

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