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Andy Ho wrote:
> 
> And can anybody recommend Numega's DevPartner for Java?

I haven't bought it yet, but I'm going to. I evaluated four
products:

	Rational DevelopmentDeskTop
	NuMega DevPartner Studio
	KL Group JProbe
	Intuitive Systems OptimizeIt

I was looking for profiling *and* code coverage for Java and C++,
plus memory checking for C++. 

I liked JProbe a lot, especially the memory analysis, but the
memory analysis was really hard to use (you had to look at a
snapshot while the program was running; it wouldn't just save
them for later perusal), and it has no code coverage tool.

OptimizeIt was similar to JProbe, but I found it confusing to
use, and it didn't meet my requirements, either.

(Obviously these two are Java only, which would have been fine if
they had done what I needed them to.)

Rational and NuMega were very similar. The Rational products were
a little slicker. For instance, I have a C++ program with a
parent-child setup. The test suite creates 25-50 child processes.
Instrumented under Rational, these test runs were automatically
saved and merged. Under NuMega, I was prompted to save them as
the test was running, and had to later individually load and
merge each file.

I found the NuMega reports easier to understand in both profiling
and code coverage, both for Java and C++. That and the lower
price gave NuMega the nod.

If I were willing to spend the extra money and invest in the
Rational tools more broadly, such as Rose, SODA, RequisitePro,
and ClearQuest, then Rational DevelopmentStudio would be
compelling.

John L

cc: Andy Ho