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Robustification Through Introspection and Analysis Tools (Avoiding Developer Taxes)

Speaker/s: Stephen Kennedy (Havok)
Day / Time / Location: Friday 2:30- 3:30 Room 2009, West Hall, 2nd Fl
Track / Duration / Format / Audience Level: Programming / 60-Minute / Lecture / All
GDC Vault Recording: Video Recorded
Description: We seek to remove human interaction from all tedious programming tasks. We show how a modified LLVM clang frontend can keep your reflection data up to date. By comparing metadata snapshots the computer can do 90% of the work of maintaining strong backwards compatibility. Make your asset pipeline much more robust. We show a low-overhead method of binding C++ to script via reflection. As well as producing reflection structures for serialization, our clang front-end can produce structures which are combined with the memory managers raw blocks to give an accurate picture of the heap automatically. In all cases, we aim to minimise the cost of change by removing the human interaction and to provide verification of those human edited parts.
Takeaway: Attendees will see a 10-year history of experience in automation of game plumbing. They will see how we have attempted to formalize traditionally informal processes and at each step how we attempt to minimize fragility and maximize verification and diagnostics.
Intended Audience: This session is applicable to all programmers, there are no particular prerequisites. The ones who will get the most benefit however are mid to large-sized teams who are losing quality and productivity due to a broken pipeline and/or maintenance overheads.

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