Patent ID: 8615739

Claim:
A method of monitoring resources of a computing device, comprising: performing an automated test on a software application, wherein the automated test comprises a sequence of steps to cause a processor of the computing device to provide input to the application under test; periodically collecting system counter data for the application under test for a period of the automated test; correlating the collected system counter data with a step of the automated test being performed at a time the system counter data was collected; providing a graph comprising one or more traces of data values of system counters of the collected system counter data and comprising an index of results obtained during steps of the automated test; in response to selecting a position within the one or more traces of data values, providing an indication in the index of results of a particular result corresponding to a step of the automated test that occurred at the selected position; and in response to selecting a result within the index of results, providing an indication in the one or more traces of data values of where a step of the automated test corresponding to the selected result occurred.