Python Coverage Validator Change History

Version 1.78
Version 1.78 includes the following functionality:

• Bug fix for software updater throwing MFC exception on some systems.

Version 1.77
Version 1.77 includes the following functionality:

• XML output reformatted to improve readability and rendering.
• Updated self-installer to handle additional security checks for some computer systems.

Version 1.76
Version 1.76 includes the following functionality:

• Bug fix for XML output
• Addition of software update code.

Version 1.75
Version 1.75 includes the following functionality:

• Robustness improvement for handling shared memory coverage data.

Version 1.74
Version 1.74 includes the following functionality:

• Support for Python 2.7
• New tutorial tab and additional option on Help menu.

Version 1.73
Version 1.73 includes the following functionality:

• Tutorials moved to the website. Tutorial link always available from help menu and at startup.

Version 1.72
Version 1.72 includes the following functionality:

• Maintenance release.

Version 1.71
Version 1.71 includes the following functionality:

• Bug fix for buffer overrun on session export dialog.

Version 1.70
Version 1.70 includes the following functionality:

• New menu implementation, addition of bitmaps.

Version 1.69
Version 1.69 includes the following functionality:

• Bug fix for COMCTL32.DLL bitmap handling.

Version 1.68
Version 1.68 includes the following functionality:

• Bug fix for saving sessions.
• Bug fix for merging sessions.
• Bug fix for selecting sessions in the session manager.

Version 1.67
Version 1.67 includes the following functionality:

• Uninitialised data bug fix.

Version 1.66
Version 1.66 includes the following functionality:

• New command line option -pulseToStdout.
• When run from the command line using command line options the return code is now the return code of the most recently run app.
• Bug fix for race condition when starting second or subsequent session, could cause possible crash.
• Fix minor bug fixes.

Version 1.65
Version 1.65 includes the following functionality:

• New communications architecture.

Version 1.64
Version 1.64 includes the following functionality:

• Rationalising code base. Maintenance release.

Version 1.63
Version 1.63 includes the following functionality:

• Rationalising code base. Maintenance release.

Version 1.62
Version 1.62 includes the following functionality:

• Maintenance release.

Version 1.61
Version 1.61 includes the following functionality:

• Support for editing with VS 2010.
• Bug fix for editing with VS 2008

Version 1.60
Version 1.60 includes the following functionality:

• New implementation of shared memory handling - uses less memory, faster.
• Removal of Inter-Process Communications settings from settings dialog, now redundant.
• Change to profiler and coverage tracing hook interception to be compatible with Turbo Gears.
• Bug fix for environment variable handling.
• Bug fix for license installer software.

Version 1.59
Version 1.59 includes the following functionality:

• Bug fix for HTML export when specifying Unix directory separator.

Version 1.58
Version 1.58 includes the following functionality:

• Minor UI changes to add user hints.
• All executables are now code signed to prevent warnings on Vista/Windows 7.

Version 1.57
Version 1.57 includes the following functionality:

• Bug fix for Python Parser.
• Updated source code editor.

Version 1.56
Version 1.56 includes the following functionality:

• Installer bug fix.

Version 1.55
Version 1.55 includes the following functionality:

• Support for Python 2.6.
• Various minor bug fixes.
• Memory access synchronization bug fixes.
• Various multi-threading improvements.

Version 1.54
Version 1.54 includes the following functionality:

• Bug fix for auto merge.

Version 1.53
Version 1.53 includes the following functionality:

• Bug fix for data race.
• Bug fix for command line code coverage.

Version 1.52
Version 1.52 includes the following functionality:

• Addition of new command line arguments.
  • -mergeClearChangeApplication. Reset the central session if application changes.
  • -mergeClearRebuild. Reset the central session if timestamp changes.
  • -mergeClearNone. Do not reset the central session if application or timestamp changes.
  • -launchAppHidden. Caused the program started with -program to run hidden.
• Bug fix for functions display when loading data from a saved merge session which merges data from multiple different applications. This bug fix is useful for developers running unit tests and collecting coverage data.
• Performance improvement for loading sorting data.
• Minor tip of day bug fix.
• Exported HTML 0% bar graph bug fix for Internet Explorer.
• Bug fix for rare data-corruption causing crash due to race condition.
• Minor gui fixes.

Version 1.51
Version 1.51 includes the following functionality:

• Minor bug fixes.

Version 1.50
Version 1.50 includes the following functionality:

• Improved HTML export output - addition of bar graphs.
• Improved HTML export output - addition of CSS styling of exported HTML.
• Bug fix for export when specifying a file in a non-existent directory.
• Bug fix for source code colouring component.

Version 1.49
Version 1.49 includes the following functionality:

• Misc bug fixes. Maintenance release.

Version 1.48
Version 1.48 includes the following functionality:

• Support for Stackless Python 2.5.2.

Version 1.47
Version 1.47 includes the following functionality:

• Bug fix for launching on Windows Vista and Windows 2008.

Version 1.46
Version 1.46 includes the following functionality:

• Bug fix for obscure "The Handle is invalid." error message that can happen during launch.
• Bug fix for launching on Windows Vista and Windows 2008.

Version 1.45
Version 1.45 includes the following functionality:

• Rationalisation of hooking code.
• Removal of svlCVPythonRunner.exe

Version 1.44
Version 1.44 includes the following functionality:

• Bug fix for python runtime detection.

Version 1.43
Version 1.43 includes the following functionality:

• Robustness maintenance.

Version 1.42
Version 1.42 includes the following functionality:

• Addition of 32 bit runtime test.

Version 1.41
Version 1.41 includes the following functionality:

• Bug fix for Session Manager dialog.

Version 1.40
Version 1.40 includes the following functionality:

• Addition of bar graph coverage statistics on main displays.
• Bug fix for crash with repainting embedded edit control.

Version 1.39
Version 1.39 includes the following functionality:

• Bug fix for background colour on some resizing graphical dialog boxes.
• Bug fix for source code display possible crash when in a splitter window.

Version 1.38
Version 1.38 includes the following functionality:

• Bug fix for crash with settings dialog File Locations.
• Replacement of all 3rd party tab controls with a custom tab control.
• Bug fix for source code control and misc controls flickering when resizing in a splitter window.

Version 1.37
Version 1.37 includes the following functionality:

• Bug fix for settings dialog to allow correction selection of specified tab.
• Update to licensing dialog to prevent confusion with example application.
• Minor bug fixes.

Version 1.36
Version 1.36 includes the following functionality:

• Addition of merge-at-start option for Auto Merging.
• Replacement of all 3rd party grid/tree controls with the same virtual grid/tree control used for the main displays. This change has been made for consistency of user interface and also to facilitate future ports of the software to alternate operating systems and widget toolkits.
• Bug fix for flickering main display when resizing.
• Column sort highlighting - arrow on column header and colour column colour hinting for the entire column.
• New layout for setting dialog, to make settings dialogs as similar as possible across the entire Software Verification product range.
• New default colours - click Reset on settings dialog to get them (other settings will change as well!)

Version 1.35
Version 1.35 includes the following functionality:

• Bug fix for some code that could cause Data Execution Prevention violations if you had this Operating System option enabled.

Version 1.34
Version 1.34 includes the following functionality:

• Performance improvement for reading files.
• Change to export dialog for source code exporting and XML.
• Change to command line behaviour for source code exporting and XML.
• Addition of error code status to exported data.

Version 1.33
Version 1.33 includes the following functionality:

• Bug fix for crash when double click on Reset button on settings dialog.
• Misc maintenance improvements.

Version 1.32
Version 1.32 includes the following functionality:

• Bug fix for race condition (causes crash) for inter process comms one multi core/cpu machines. Bug is not visible on HyperThreaded machines or single cores CPUs. Bug has been seen on dual core CPUs, but is more obvious on dual core quad CPU machines.

Version 1.31
Version 1.31 includes the following functionality:

• Minor bug fixes.

Version 1.30
Version 1.30 includes the following functionality:

• Minor user interface bug fixes and usability improvements.

Version 1.29
Version 1.29 includes the following functionality:

• UI modification for files and lines.

Version 1.28
Version 1.28 includes the following functionality:

• Source code colouring - more languages supported.
• File dialog file extension handling improvements.
• Launch dialog/wizard - addition of Delete button.

Version 1.27
Version 1.27 includes the following functionality:

• Improved colouring on File and Lines tab..

Version 1.26
Version 1.26 includes the following new functionality:

• Changed Python Runtime dialog to be resizable.
• Bug fix for redisplay of data when Functions data display is set to "Directory".

Version 0.25
Version 1.25 includes the following new functionality:

• IMproved HTML Help handling.

Version 1.24

• "Help PDF" added to Help menu if PDF help file is present in installation directory.
• Bug fix for installer.
• Behaviour change for Global Hook DLL handler.

Version 1.23
Version 1.23 includes the following new functionality:

• Updated scrollbar handling for editor component.

Version 1.22
Version 1.22 includes the following new functionality:

• Bug fix for auto merge settings and application shutdown.

Version 1.21
Version 1.21 includes the following new functionality:

• Maintenance release.

Version 1.20
Version 1.20 includes the following new functionality:

• Bug fix for session manager dialog.

Version 1.19
Version 1.19 includes the following new functionality:

• Addition of extra diagnostic data for helping diagnose problems when data goes bad.

Version 1.18
Version 1.18 includes the following new functionality:

• Bug fix for auto merge file creation.
• Bug fix for potential buffer overflow when command line of tested application is very long (MAX_PATH + 256 TCHARs).
• Command line displayed on diagnostic tab.
• Detailed command line displayed on diagnostic tab when in regression test mode.
• Detection of StarDock Window Blinds so that it can be safely ignored.
• Addition of Return Codes to command line documentation.
• Addition of -runtime command line option.

Version 1.17
Version 1.17 includes the following new functionality:

• Improvements to how regression tests are handled - files copied to different places, some files not created, non-existent directory handling, etc.

Version 1.16
Version 1.16 includes the following new functionality:

• Coverage, Functions, Files and Lines tabs now support vertical splitters as well as horizontal splitters.
• Bug fix for diagnostic tab when loading or switching sessions.
• Bug fix for potential buffer overflow on user interface.
• Bug fix for tutorial handling and tip of day.
• Improved splitter window resizing.

Version 1.15
Version 1.15 includes the following new functionality:

• Improved Code Coverage counts.

Version 1.14
Version 1.14 includes the following new functionality:

• UI modifications for launch dialog.
• Bug fix for Global Hook UI DLLs.

Version 1.13
Version 1.13 includes the following new functionality:

• Bug fix for environment variables.
• Improved stdout and stderr user interface on diagnostic tab.
• Bug fix for relative file names.

Version 1.12
Version 1.12 includes the following new functionality:

• Customer request: Export of session data now includes marked up source code.

Version 1.11
Version 1.11 includes the following new functionality:

• New options for exporting data on export session dialog.
• New command line option for exporting data.
  -showMergeWithReport none | top | bottom
• New command line options for controlling auto-merge.
  • -mergeToCentralSession
  • -mergeCentralToCurrentSession
  • -centralDirectory dirName
  • -centralFileName fileName

Version 1.10
Version 1.10 includes the following new functionality:

• Change to injection method to use native python.exe rather than svlCVPythonRunner.exe.
• Bug fix for buffer overrun memory corruption.

Version 1.09
Version 1.09 includes the following new functionality:

• Minor user interface changes.

Version 1.08
Version 1.08 includes the following new functionality:

• Bug fix for export timestamp.
• Bug fix for UI Global Hook intercept dialog.

Version 1.07
Version 1.07 includes the following new functionality:

• Merge session dialog is now resizable.
• <SOURCEFILE> tag has extra data (NUM_FUNCTIONS and NUM_FUNCTIONS_VISITED) in summary and coverage view.

Version 1.06
Version 1.06 includes the following new functionality:

• Improved Python Parser.

Version 1.05
Version 1.05 includes the following new functionality:

• Bug fix for command line processing.
• Command line processing documentation update.
• New command line parameter:
  -exportType File
  -exportType Class
  -exportType SummaryAndCoverage

Version 1.04
Version 1.04 includes the following new functionality:

• Change to sorting algorithm.

Version 1.03
Version 1.03 includes the following new functionality:

• Speed improvement in stub.
• Coverage filter improvements for speed and filter behaviour.
• Modified Python Parser.

Version 1.02
Version 1.02 includes the following new functionality:

• Bug fix for filters.

Version 1.01
Version 1.01 includes the following new functionality:

• New export format.
• New command line argument -exportDescription.
• Change to function visit counting to compensate for extra counts added by Python.
• Improved Python Parser.

Version 1.00
Version 1.00 includes the following new functionality:

• Beta test complete. Full product release.

Version 0.67
Version 0.67 includes the following new functionality:

• Bug fix for files with no lines and statistics calculated that included these files.

Version 0.66
Version 0.66 includes the following new functionality:

• Addition of startProfiler() method to Python class svlPythonCV. This enables you to start the profiler from within a Python method. This is useful for situations in which you cannot launch your Python application directly from the Python Coverage Validator user interface.
• Addition of ability to start profiler from C/C++. Useful for embedded Python.

Version 0.65
Version 0.65 includes the following new functionality:

• Bug fix for filters - context menu filtering now supports multiple selection.
• Feature improvement - files that will be filtered on the next instrumentation run can be displayed using different colours - new option on Colours settings tab.

Version 0.64
Version 0.64 includes the following new functionality:

• Addition of -- comment facility for -commandFile arguments.
• Editor component maintenance update.

Version 0.63
Version 0.63 includes the following new functionality:

• Bug fix for internal class information representation - bug fix for rare fatal crash.
• Bug fix for coverage filters tab on settings dialog.

Version 0.62
Version 0.62 includes the following new functionality:

• Bug fix for Summary tab when delete a session.
• New command line options for controlling exporting of data.
  • -exportUnvisitedLines
  • -exportVisitedLines
  • -exportUnvisitedFunctions
  • -exportVisitedFunctions
  • -exportDetailedReport
  • -exportDoColourCode
  • -exportMultipleFiles
• Bug fix for Num Visits statistics on Functions tab.
• Bug fix for setting instrumentation filters from context menu - settings saved to registry immediately.

Version 0.61
Version 0.61 includes the following new functionality:

• Tracing functions now trace multi-threaded applications correctly.
• Automatic file association.
• Bug fix for session export filename case-insensitivity comparison.
• Multiple titles added to session export - one per session.

Version 0.60
Version 0.60 includes the following new functionality:

• Bug fix for load session on command line.
• Bug fix for Reset launch history on launch application dialog.
• Bug fix for thread detection on Windows 2000/Windows XP.

Version 0.59
Version 0.59 includes the following new functionality:

• Editing options expanded to include Visual Studio.NET 2002, 2003, 2005, SCiTE editor.

Version 0.58
Version 0.58 includes the following new functionality:

• Bug fix for Unicode environment variables.

Version 0.57
Version 0.57 includes the following new functionality:

• Bug fix for environment variable handling.
• Improved Python Parser.
• Improved Python syntax colouring.

Version 0.56
Version 0.56 includes the following new functionality:

• Bug fix for source code fragment display.

Version 0.55
Version 0.55 includes the following new functionality:

• Support for loading two sessions from the command line and comparing them without having to run a test session.
• New command line arguments -loadSession1, -loadSession2, -numSessions.
• Minor command line bug fixes.
• Improved command line help topics.

Version 0.54
Version 0.54 includes the following new functionality:

• Bug fix for HTML export and XML export occasionally appearing to not export data to a file when used on the command line (the data was exported but not to the file the user specified).

Version 0.53
Version 0.53 includes the following new functionality:

• Addition of ability to specify -O and -OO equivalents when launching application.

Version 0.52
Version 0.52 includes the following new functionality:

• Help now supplied as HTML Help rather than WinHelp.

Version 0.51
Version 0.51 includes the following new functionality:

• StatusBar update.

Version 0.50
Version 0.50 includes the following new functionality:

• Misc bug fix release.

Version 0.49
Version 0.49 includes the following new functionality:

• Archiving version update.
• Bug fix for display diacritical characters and characters above 127.

Version 0.48
Version 0.48 includes the following new functionality:

• Bug fix for load/save settings.
• Command line bug fixes.

Version 0.47
Version 0.47 includes the following new functionality:

• Addition of filtering options to context menus on the three main views.

Version 0.46
Version 0.46 includes the following new functionality:

• Bug fix for XML export crash.

Version 0.45
Version 0.45 includes the following new functionality:

• Misc user interface bug fixes.

Version 0.44
Version 0.44 includes the following new functionality:

• Improved identification of Python DLLs.
• Common storage of DLL runtimes for use by all Python Validators.
• Support for Python 2.4.
• User Interface improvement - numbers formatted according to user's choice of locale.

Version 0.43
Version 0.43 includes the following new functionality:

• Addition of controls for redirecting Python stdout/stderr.
• Misc bug fixes.

Version 0.42
Version 0.42 includes the following new functionality:

• Source code coverage colouring scheme change.
• Bug fix for editor.

Version 0.41
Version 0.41 includes the following new functionality:

• Fix bug in Python parser - comment embedded inside a comment.
• Fix bug in Python parser - continuation lines.
• Fix bug in Python parser - global lines.
• Bug fix for session export.
• Bug fix for graphical view on Coverage tab.

Version 0.40
Version 0.40 includes the following new functionality:

• Licensing bug fix - only affects beta versions.

Version 0.39
Version 0.39 includes the following new functionality:

• Handles sys.settrace() and sys.setprofile().
• Addition of '*' wildcard to filters.

Version 0.38
Version 0.38 includes the following new functionality:

• Bug fix installer.
• Bug fix for licensing.
• Removal of SE_SECURITY_NAME privilege requirement for working with services.
• Addition of option to redirect stdout to the Diagnostic tab or leave stdout un-redirected.
• Modified launch wizard and launch dialog.
• Filters dialog modified.
• Updated help.

Version 0.37
Version 0.37 includes the following new functionality:

• Bug fix for session loading.

Version 0.36
Version 0.36 includes the following new functionality:

• Context menu on tooltip support.

Version 0.35
Version 0.35 includes the following new functionality:

• Addition of User Privilege checks when accessing the Registry and setting debugging privileges.

Version 0.34
Version 0.34 includes the following new functionality:

• Bug fix for resource error for "Reset Statistics" button.
• Addition of Collapsed status for Functions view.

Version 0.33
Version 0.33 includes the following new functionality:

• New, display "By directory" display for Functions tab.. This was a customer request.
• Ctrl-G, Goto Line in source code editor pane. This was a customer request.
• Ctrl-F, Find Text in source code editor pane. This was a customer request.
• Ctrl-F, Find file/function in Summary, Functions, Lines tabs. This was a customer request.
• Navigate by line groups in source code editor pane. This was a customer request.
• Stop/Start data collection buttons added to toolbar. This was a customer request.
• Reset statistics button added to toolbar. This was a customer request.
• Accelerator support.

Version 0.32
Version 0.32 includes the following new functionality:

• Exported HTML files and Exported XML files support left/right alignment and comma separators, as defined in the data display section of the settings dialog.

Version 0.31
Version 0.31 includes the following new functionality:

• Clipboard handling bug fix.
• Improved Coverage Filters.

Version 0.30
Version 0.30 includes the following new functionality:

• Bug fix for statistics update on source code viewing pane.
• Bug fix for Auto-Merge when set to rebuild and number of files changes.

Version 0.29
Version 0.29 includes the following new functionality:

• Bug fix for results tab data update.

Version 0.28
Version 0.28 includes the following new functionality:

• Support for multiple invocations of Python Coverage Validator running at once.
• Addition of environment variable support when launching applications.

Version 0.27
Version 0.27 includes the following new functionality:

• Virtual tree control font bug fix.

Version 0.26
Version 0.26 includes the following new functionality:

• Virtual grid/tree control graphics bug fix.

Version 0.25
Version 0.25 includes the following new functionality:

• Bug fix for rare INVALID_HANDLE_EXCEPTION crash.

Version 0.24
Version 0.24 includes the following new functionality:

• Session export asks user for confirmation of file overwrite.
• Syntax colouring improvement for Python comments.

Version 0.23
Version 0.23 includes the following new functionality:

• Improved support for Python programs that call sys.exit().

Version 0.22
Version 0.22 includes the following new functionality:

• Misc bug fixes and speed improvements.

Version 0.21
Version 0.21 includes the following new functionality:

• Misc display bug fixes.

Version 0.20
Version 0.20 includes the following new functionality:

• Python Runtime Dialog bug fix.

Version 0.19
Version 0.19 includes the following new functionality:

• New command line options:
  • -exportMergedAsHTML filename
  • -exportMergedAsXML filename
  • -enableMergeIntoCurrentSession
  • -disableMergeIntoCurrentSession
• Bug fixes for merging when run from the command line.
• Bug fix for merging when using the session merge dialog.

Version 0.18
Version 0.18 includes the following new functionality:

• Misc bug fixes.

Version 0.17
Version 0.17 includes the following new functionality:

• Auto merge bug fixes and improvements.

Version 0.16
Version 0.16 includes the following new functionality:

• Multi-select on various file dialogs.
• Configurable embedded statistics in source code view.

Version 0.15
Version 0.15 includes the following new functionality:

• Addition of Summary tab.
• Grid redraw bug fix.

Version 0.14
Version 0.14 includes the following new functionality:

• File Locations bug fix.
• Settings dialog bug fix.

Version 0.13
Version 0.13 includes the following new functionality:

• Bug fix for merged sessions support.

Version 0.12
Version 0.12 includes the following new functionality:

• Synchronization handling changes to ensure robustness when exception handling.

Version 0.11
Version 0.11 includes the following new functionality:

• Maintenance update. Misc bug fixes.

Version 0.10
Version 0.10 includes the following new functionality:

• Python Parser bug fix.
• Mouse wheel support for editing component.

Version 0.09
Version 0.09 includes the following new functionality:

• Improvement for symbol handling.
• Editor component bug fix.

Version 0.08
Version 0.08 includes the following new functionality:

• Enhanced editor component - embedded text can be aligned left or right.

Version 0.07
Version 0.07 includes the following new functionality:

• Visit count displayed alongside source code.

Version 0.06
Version 0.06 includes the following new functionality:

• Bug fix for merging sessions - symbol data was not merged correctly. This also resulted in failure to display any data on the Functions tab when a merged session was loaded.

Version 0.05
Version 0.05 includes the following new functionality:

• Improved Python parser.
• Addition of custom editor specification.
• Bug fix for file name matching.

Version 0.04
Version 0.04 includes the following new functionality:

• Bug fix for parsing Python file.

Version 0.03
Version 0.03 includes the following new functionality:

• Bug fix for command line quoted argument handling.
• New toolbar icons.
• Maintenance work.

Version 0.02
Version 0.02 includes the following changes;

• Bug fix for passing arguments to Python application.

Version 0.01

Initial beta version made available to selected beta testers. We would like your feedback on any bugs you may find, on the features and benefits of the software, and also feedback on features that you think are missing from the software but which you would find useful.

As you can see from the artwork, we are still using the Python Coverage Validator artwork whilst we wait for the Python Coverage Validator artwork to be completed.

Please provide us with feedback.

Regards.

Software Verification Python Coverage Validator Team.