Highlights in Erlang/OTP R9B

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Highlights in Erlang/OTP R9B

• Erlang/OTP R9B released 16th of
  October. Supported platforms are Sun Solaris
  2.5-2.8 Sparc Windows NT/2000/XP (Windows
  95/98) Linux x86 (kernel 2.4.5, glibc 2.2.2)
• Open Source R9B-0 available since 16th of
  October

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New

• Observer, various facilities for observing a
  live system.
• ms_transform, for easier writing of match
  specifications.
• Cprof, a call count profiler
• CosEventDomain, OMG compliant CORBA service
• Et, an event tracer with graphical viewing of
  trace data
• HiPE (shared_heap, native codegen)
• Packages, structured program module packages

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Enhanced

• Memory allocation improvements
• 262143 Erlang processes, gt 255 node connections
• ASN1 , much faster encode/decode of BER and PER
• Inets, support for HTTP 1.1
• Orber, Fixed datatype, new debugging facilities
• Mnesia, fragmented tables, performance during
  startup
• GS, uses Tcl/Tk 8.3.4

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Erlang OTP/Test Server released as Open Source

• The test server 2 test suites are released
  today
• Make the test_server available for public use.
• Show how efficient it is to use Erlang for
  testing.
• The test suites can be used to check that the
  Erlang you just built works as expected.
• Note!, not a supported application
• http//www.erlang.org/project/test_server

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What is the Erlang OTP/Test Server?

• An easy way to
• write tests,
• run tests and
• to get test results presented in a nice way.
• Used in all levels of design, by individual
  designer and in daily build.

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Erlang OTP/Test Server, example of test suite

• -module(my_SUITE).
• ...
• -include("test_server.hrl").
• -define(default_timeout, ?tminutes(1)).
• all(suite) -gt Test specification on test suite
  level not_started_func1.
• not_started_func1(suite) -gt
  not_started_func1(doc) -gt "Testing function
  1 when application is not started".
• not_started_func1(Config) when list(Config) -gt
  ?line error, not_started
  myappfunc1(dummy_ref,1), ?line error,
  not_started myappfunc1(dummy_ref,2), ok.

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Erlang OTP/Test Server example of result report,
top level
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Erlang OTP/Test Server example of result report ,
suite level
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Erlang OTP/Test Server example of result report,
test case level
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Test Server
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Coming next

• Erlang/OTP on OSE-delta
• Enhanched memory handling for ets-tables,
  binaries
• Completed 64-bit support
• Stand-alone Erlang as part of the package
• Corba security
• Improved erl_crash dumps,
• ...