Generate, Save and Load Profile Reports

Display Report

When you have run the Profiler, click on the icon in the Profiler toolbar. The generated report displays on the Call Tree Report tab of the Call Stack .

This report can be very detailed, especially if every level is expanded. You can display a summary of the report by clicking on the Summary Report tab of the Call Stack.

You can filter and reorganize the information in the report, in the same way as you do for the results of a Model Search.

Getting Started

Customizing the Search View

Show or hide unknown frames

By default the report excludes unknown function calls and frames in the call tree. Click on the  icon in the Call Stack toolbar to show and hide these frames in the report.

Display the previous or next incidence of a function

When you select a node representing a function, and that function call is present in more than one stack, you can click on the and  icons in the Call Stack toolbar to navigate between all stacks in which the function appears. Navigation is from highest use to lowest.

Set a Node as the root

If you want to examine a deeply-nested branch, you can make it the root node of the report. To do this, click on the node and click on the icon in the Call Stack toolbar. Only function calls from the selected branch will be displayed.

Reset the Root Node

To return the report to displaying the branch from the node on which the report was originally generated, click on the icon in the Call Stack toolbar.

Generate a Sequence Diagram

You can generate a Sequence diagram from any node in the Profiler report. To do this, either:

•	Click on the node and click on the icon in the Call Stack toolbar

The generated Sequence diagram reflects all activity resulting from the selected node. It is created as a child diagram of the Interaction corresponding to the node, and is immediately displayed in the Diagram View.

Save Report to File

Either:

•	Click on the icon in the Call Stack toolbar, or

The Save As dialog displays. Browse to the appropriate file location and, in the File name field, type the file name.

In the Save as type field, select the file type you want to use, either binary (.ssprf) or .xmi.

Click on the Save button.

Load a Saved Report

Click on the icon in the Profiler Toolbar and select the Load Report context menu option.

The Open dialog displays, on which you browse for and select the report file.

Click on the Open button; the Call Stack opens or refreshes with the loaded report.

Generate a Function Line report

In the Sampler report, right-click on the name of the function to analyze, and select the Create Line report for function menu option.

Once the Profiler binds the method, the line report is opened on the Sampler Report window.

Function Line Reports

Make Report a Team Review Resource

You can save any current report as a resource for a Category, Topic or Post in the Team Review to share and review at any time, as it is saved with the model. The report can also be compared with future runs.

To begin this process, select the menu option Team Review Context Menu | Share Resource | Add Active Profiler Report.

Work on Team Review Items

Attach Report to an Artifact Element

In the Project Browser, select the Package or element under which to create the Artifact element.

On the Call Stack window showing the report, right-click and select the Save Report to Artifact context menu option. You are prompted to provide a name for the report (and element); type this in and click on the OK button.

The Artifact element is created in the Project Browser, underneath the selected package or element.

If you add the Artifact to a diagram as a simple link, when you double-click on the element the Call Stack window displays, showing the saved report.

Artifact