The File Path Substitutions tab allows you to specify how Bug Validator resolves file paths and disk identifiers.

 

Some software development schemes have multiple rolling builds of their software. To enable this they often use substituted disk drive naming schemes. When you then download the build to your development machine for feature development and testing it is possible that debugging information may reference disk drives that do not exist on your machine (for example the build was built on drive X: and your machine only has C:, D:, E:). The substitute option on this tab allows you to remap the substitution so that the Bug Validator looks in the correct place for the source code.

 

Or you may just be copying a build from a drive on a development machine to a subdirectory on a drive on your test machine.

 

 

 

 

File Path Substitutions

 

To specify a substitute path click the Add button. An entry will be added in the scrolled list. Click on the New Path column and type in the name directory containing the build. Click on the Old Path column and type in the path that is to be replaced in any file paths. For example, you may specify C:\Users\Stephen\Documents for the New Path and f:\dev\build for the Old Path.

 

To remove a substitute file path, select the entry in the scrolled list and click on the Remove button.

 

 

Example: Changed disk drive

 

Example: Project copied to a new location

 

 

Reset All - Resets all global settings, not just those on the current page.

 

 

Reset - Resets the settings on the current page.