Table of Contents

About This Manual

Product Overview

• What is Panorama C/C++?

  Problems addressed

  Advanced Techniques Applied

  General features

• Product Family and Functionalities

  Panorama/OO-Browser

  Panorama/OO-Diagrammer

  Panorama/OO-Analyzer

  Panorama/OO-Test

  Panorama/OO-SQA

• Supporting The IEEE Standards

  Cyclomatic Complexity

  Test Coverage

Application Overview

• New system development support

  Maintainable new system design

  Less-bug and less-risk coding

  Diagram-based logic debugging

  Source-level program termination and run-time error locating

• Daily software programming, testing, and quality assurance support for a new or existing system

  Efficient module-level source editing and safe code modification

  Assisted code understanding, inspection, and walk-through

  Incremental test ordering for unit and system integration testing

  Multimetrics-based test complexity analysis for test planning

  Test coverage analysis with makefile-driven code instrumentation

  Efficient un-tested path/segment testing and re-testing

  Time-saving module-level re-testing

  Cost-effective and automatic system-level re-testing

  Object-Oriented software quality measurement

• Re-engineering support

  System structure analysis

  System class/procedure analysis

  System procedural logic analysis and diagramming

  System control flow and cyclomatic complexity analysis

  System data analysis

  System performance analysis

  On-line accessible document book and report generation

• Other applications

  Project management

  New team member training

  Customized system explanation and acceptance review

Installation

• Requirements

• Operations

  Loading the Files

  Initializing the Environment

  Special Note for Systems With Both OpenLook and Motif

  Special Note for Systems with Older Versions of Panorama

  Re-booting the System

• Trouble Shooting

• Network Environment Example

• Upgrading from a Demo Version

• Using a New C++ Compiler

• Distribution File List

A Guided Tour of Panorama C/C++

1. Specifying the source program

2. Creating an analysis database

3. Getting dynamic test coverage data

4. Obtaining a system-level overview using J-Charts

5. Understanding detailed code logic using Logic Diagrams

6. Measuring program quality using metrics diagrams

7. Viewing on-line program documentation

8. Analyzing test cases for more efficient testing

9. Further exploration

10. Exiting Panorama

Basics

• How to start Panorama C/C++

• Moving around inside Panorama

  Push buttons, radio buttons, and check buttons

  Pull-down menus

  Pop-up menus

  Text input area

  Selection dialog boxes

  Message windows and log file

  On-line help

• How to exit Panorama

Setting Up a Session

• Panorama Operation Diagram

• MAIN menu

  Tool bar

• Loading a Makefile

• Input Bin List

  Specifying the code you want to examine

  To design a new Input Bin List using Panorama

  To save the contents of the INPUT BIN

  CPP DIRECTIVES and other analysis options

  To reload a previously saved .HSI List

• Creating and Loading a Database

  To create a database

  Note for "static analysis only"

  To reload a previously saved database

  Database files and incremental analysis

• Generating Dynamic Data

  Where do dynamic data come from?

  Compiling your code for dynamic analysis

• Test Coverage

• Run-time performance

  What is run-time performance?

  Receiving the run-time performance data

• Menu Bar

  FILE pull-down menu

  TOOLS pull-down menu

  SUBSET pull-down menu

  PROPERTIES

  ABOUT

Panorama/OO-Test

• Basic Concepts

  Problems and solutions in software testing

  Features and Benefits of Panorama OO-Test

• Operations

  Activating Panorama OO-Test

  Preparing and running the test cases

  J-Flow Diagram

  Test Coverage Analysis (TCA)

  Exiting Panorama OO-Test

Panorama OO-Browser

• Basic Concepts

  Function Call Graphs

  Class Inheritance Charts

  Class-Function Coupling Graph

• Operations

  Activating Panorama OO-Browser

  Generating structure charts

  Structure chart menus

  Highlighting and isolating subtrees

  Hiding and expanding subtrees

  Dimming and exposing individual functions or classes

  Locating functions and classes

  Working with large structure charts

  Data overlays

  Displaying information about the structure chart

  Displaying information about individual functions or classes

  Generating various diagrams for the selected module

  Specifying new roots

  Changing the way the structure chart looks

  Editing source code

  Printing a structure chart

  Exiting the structure chart

  Exiting Panorama OO-Browser

Panorama OO-Diagrammer

• Basic Concepts

• Operations

  Activating Panorama OO-Diagrammer

  Generating logic diagrams

  Reading the diagrams

  Moving around in the diagrams

  Using tags to save a view:

  Generating logical paths

  Displaying paths information

  Locating code in the diagrams

  Changing colors

  Changing diagram width

  Printing a diagram

  Exiting a diagram

  Exiting Panorama OO-Diagrammer

Panorama OO-SQA

• Basic Concepts

• Operations

  Activating Panorama OO-SQA

  Generating software metrics

  Reading software metrics

  Basic quality assurance metrics

  Object-Oriented metrics

  Selecting functions or classes

  VIEW menu

  Setting standard metrics values

  Changing colors

  Setting display mode

  Metrics values for classes

  Updating test coverage data

  Printing a metrics diagram

  Exiting Software Metrics

  Exiting Panorama OO-SQA

Panorama/OO-Analyzer

• Basic Concepts

• Operations

  Activating Panorama OO-Analyzer

  Generating reports

  Reading the report

  Updating reports

  Report utilities

  Searching for text in reports

  Saving a report

  Printing a report

  Changing colors

  Setting tags

  Reviewing an existing report

  Exiting reports

  Exiting OO-Analyzer

Reference

• Notes

  Copyright notice

• Troubleshooting

Appendix

1. Box Notations for Structure Charts

2. Notations for Control Flow Diagram

3. Notations for J-Diagram

4. Test Coverage Data in Diagrams

5. MACRO Representation in Diagrams

Glossary