Overview
Race Catcher™ is a Dynamic Code Analyzer that automatically diagnoses race conditions and deadlocks in JAVA BYTECODE during its execution. The diagnosis results are 0%-false-positives.
In addition, this product explains your application using original views and graphs uniquely defining processes algorithms. Race Catcher™ uses the graphical user interface of Software Understanding Machine® (SUM) from Thinking Software, Inc.
The Sophisticated Dynamic Code Analysis of Race Catcher provides huge advantages over Static Analysis of race conditions. As opposed to a big number of false-positives results coming from traditional static analyzers, the Race Catcher analysis includes ONLY the actually experienced race conditions. No false-positives results are therefore generated, saving many hours of otherwise unnecessary analysis.
Ideally, the Race Catcher enabled machine would be used all the time the application runs, since race conditions may be experienced in the future on a combination of specific input data coupled with specific states of threads involved. Running an application in a RaceCatcher-enabled environment on only a few specific sets of data will not be as sufficient. It is the production environment issues that are the costliest and most difficult, if not impossible, to reproduce with other tools.
Race Catcher Will Not Only catch those race conditions, but it will create a reproducible and replayable model of the code demonstrating and explaining those conditions. The same analysis is extended to the Deadlocks.
Highlights
- Race conditions analysis with 0 false positives
- deadlock analysis with 0 false positives
- Animating race conditions on graphs uniquely defining software processes algorithms
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Typical total price
$0.242/hour
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Instance type | Product cost/hour | EC2 cost/hour | Total/hour |
|---|---|---|---|
t2.large | $0.05 | $0.093 | $0.143 |
t2.xlarge | $0.05 | $0.186 | $0.236 |
t2.2xlarge | $0.05 | $0.371 | $0.421 |
t3.large | $0.05 | $0.083 | $0.133 |
t3.xlarge | $0.05 | $0.166 | $0.216 |
t3.2xlarge | $0.05 | $0.333 | $0.383 |
t3a.large | $0.05 | $0.075 | $0.125 |
t3a.xlarge | $0.05 | $0.15 | $0.20 |
t3a.2xlarge | $0.05 | $0.301 | $0.351 |
m3.large | $0.05 | $0.133 | $0.183 |
Additional AWS infrastructure costs
Type | Cost |
|---|---|
EBS General Purpose SSD (gp2) volumes | $0.10/per GB/month of provisioned storage |
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64-bit (x86) Amazon Machine Image (AMI)
Amazon Machine Image (AMI)
An AMI is a virtual image that provides the information required to launch an instance. Amazon EC2 (Elastic Compute Cloud) instances are virtual servers on which you can run your applications and workloads, offering varying combinations of CPU, memory, storage, and networking resources. You can launch as many instances from as many different AMIs as you need.
Version release notes
This version completely eliminates product learning curve by providing content sensitive instructions on each step of product use. At the same time, the product automation features are further highlighted.
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Usage instructions
INSTALLING Race Catcher
- Launch Ubuntu instance with Sec Group that allows SSH communication (PORT 22) and your local IP address.
- Connect to your instance using SSH Client and provided sample command while adding to it the parameter
"-L 5901:localhost:5901" to allow SSH tunnel VNC communication. The resulting command will look like this:
ssh -L 5901:localhost:5901 -i "your_pem_file.pem" ubuntu@PUBLIC_IP_ADDRESS - During the original start of your VM, you will need to set up a password for the VNC server (running as a service) by typing "vncserver" and replying to prompts.
- Start VNC Viewer (You can use RealVNC https://www.realvnc.com/en/connect/download/viewer/ ) (a) For VNC Viewer address use: localhost:5901 (b) Disregard encryption warning, as we use encrypted communication via SSH (c) Enter the password you have set up.
USING Race Catcher
At the initial start, Race Catcher UI will guide through a few steps explaining the product's use with any java bytecode application. (The same steps can be found in Help-> Introduction. More is found in the Help-QuickStart and Help-Help Contents)
Your Java bytecode application must run in SUM Enabled mode, (SUM stands for Software Understanding Machine):
add -javaagent parameter pointing to the RaceCatcher.jar while invoking your application using (a) OR (b):
(a) instead of using java -jar your.jar start the application with java -javaagent:path-to-racecatcher-jar/RaceCatcher.jar -jar your.jar or (b) use preinstalled script jta i.e. instead of java -jar your.jar use jta -jar your.jar
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Wow! It really works!
Wow! This locates real race conditions with no effort and no wasted time. The tool does not provide any false positive cases of race condition. Highly recommend!