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<title>Understanding tracing</title>
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<h2>Understanding tracing</h2>
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<p>Tracing is a way to record debugging information that can be used during
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software development. With tracing, you can generate detailed, low-level
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information about an application's execution in the target device.</p>
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<p>Examples of tracing are cases when messages are sent or received from a
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component, when states change, when a certain function is entered or exited,
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or anywhere else in the code where it is interesting to know if code has been
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executed or not.</p>
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<p>The tracing tools support <b>Open System Trace (OST)</b> trace format for
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data transfer. OST is an open, platform-independent solution that is easily
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integrated into the software development process.</p>
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<p>See the overview graphic below showing the relations of the tools.</p>













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<p><img src="..\images\tracing.png" alt="Overview of the tools in the tracing solution."></p>













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<p><b>Click the topics available on the left-hand navigation pane to browse for more information.</b></p>













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<div id="footer">Copyright &copy; 2007-2010 Nokia Corporation and/or its subsidiary(-ies). All rights reserved.</div>













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