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Owen Lawrence6-Jul-22 2:27
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I have worked on lots of simulators, telescope and sensor control hardware. These desktop applications operate as processes, so progress through their various tasks is logged, as well as important choices that the software makes throughout the process, and substantive I/O values and events. Naturally unexpected events are logged too, as well as meta-info about software modules and hardware devices. Plus whatever extras we need to track down difficult problems.

Often the goal is to provide the user with the right amount of info to help them solve problems themselves without overwhelming them with cryptic detail, but make the detail available when we need to step in. For example, putting in full file paths saves us a lot of tech support calls when the user cannot find their results, or have a typo in their configuration file. Always include the complete software version (and licensed feature level) that produced the log, too.

The rest of the time a log is a useful history of what data as produced, and how.

- Owen -

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