Nektra’s SpyStudio simplifies application virtualization packaging for
VMWare ThinApp and Symantec Workspace Virtualization. It includes
advanced features for application harvesting, and troubleshooting.
Trace Application
SpyStudio shows and interprets calls, displaying the results in a
structured way which is easy for any IT professional to understand.
SpyStudio can show registry keys and files that an application uses, COM
objects and Windows the application has created, and errors and
exceptions.
Compare Traces
When tracking down an application error, SpyStudio can compare a trace
of a working application with the trace of the application which has
issues. SpyStudio shows the differences in the registry and file system
operations, COM object and Windows creations, and the rest of the
events.
Application Virtualization
To troubleshoot a virtual application you can compare the virtual
application's trace with the base trace. Using this feature, you can see
what is generating the issue.
Application Packaging
Package applications with or without installation media in ThinApp environment.
Process Monitor Complement
SpyStudio is the user-mode Procmon complement. Looking for application
errors with kernel-mode traces is tedious, and it is very difficult to
see the final outcome of a user-mode call. With kernel-mode tools, you
get a lot of noise that the application does not see, since a single
user-mode call generates lots of kernel-mode events that are not
important from the application's perspective. Most application errors
are generated by failed user-mode calls which expect a different state
of some resources: registry keys and values, files, pipes, services and
printers.
SpyStudio is also able to read Process Monitor logs (see Load ProcMon
log) and show them in a user friendly interface. It shows registry
operations in tree form like Regedit and displays errors in red. File
operations are also displayed in tree form.
Filter Driver Performance
SpyStudio is very useful to test filter driver's performance. It can
show time differences when the application executes user mode APIs.
Unlike other performance analysis products SpyStudio shows how long the
application waits for each user-mode operation. Products which show
kernel operations cannot measure the impact of a new driver on the
system.