gcov is a test coverage program. Use it in concert with GCC to analyze your programs to help create more efficient, faster running code and to discover untested parts of your program. You can use gcov as a profiling tool to help discover where your optimization efforts will best affect your code. You can also use gcov along with the other profiling tool, gprof, to assess which parts of your code use the greatest amount of computing time.

Software developers using Windows have a fantastic process explorer, made by Mark Russinovich. Linux lacks such a process explorer tool. This projects aims (in the end) to be an equivalent process explorer for Linux.

Goal is to have the same functionality of the Windows process explorer under linux, or less if linux limits us.