Features, Advantages and Benefits of the RetroVue Debugger

RetroVue's powerful and intuitive interface allows the developer to quickly find the causes of difficult bugs and understand even the most complex symptoms, leading to faster bug diagnosis and solutions.
See list of benefits for managers.

Developer

Features	Advantages	Benefits
What does the product do?	Why is it better than the competition?	What will it do for the developer?
Unique threads pane uses various colors to indicate the state of the threads at any given moment	Presents information in graphical form, revealing patterns of lock contention between threads	Allows a developer to identify thread interactions including deadlock situations.
Watch data value evolve	Navigate through the structure of the data	See state at any given moment
Track history of assigments to a given field	Reveals the events that led up to an exception - not merely the exception itself	Allows a developer to see where pointers were assigned a value of null
Graphical and Command Line Launchers	Gives power and flexibility for running program	Automatic creation of journal files capture an execution of the program being debugged
Click on a single line of source code and see all execution of that line of code	Show differences in data values for each execution of single line of code	Validate expected behavior
Novel graphical presentation of information	Display of information graphically, not merely textually	Faster recognition of destructive patterns in code
Shared Journal Files	Allows programmers to easily share information about elusive bugs	Enhanced group collaboration
Association of program's static and dynamic information	Easily traverse between the static source code and the dynamic execution of program	Ability to see the big picture

Manager

Features	Advantages	Benefits
What does the product do?	Why is it better than the competition?	What will it do for the manager?
Allows developers to spend more time designing and less time debugging	Identification and application of best practices	Meet schedules; contain costs. Better design results in better productivity and faster cycles
Visualization of program execution	Allows managers to assign most qualified person to solve a given problem	Eliminate more bugs before product release and fix bugs more easily post-production
File sharing between QA and developers	Allows QA department and developers to share files	Speedier customer service
Visualization; Journal Files	Train new developers more quickly by providing a tool that enables speedy comprehension	Keep codebase maintanance costs down (70-80% of development resources)
Shared journal files give whole team visibility into the problem	Determine and assign most qualified person to solve a given problem	Build teamwork; group collaboration
Graphical Launcher	Simple installation, configuration and administration procedures	Quick to set up and easy to use
Association of program's static and dynamic information	Easily traverse between the static source code and the dynamic execution of program	Ability to see the big picture