NA-MIC-kit-curriculum/Testing-Based Programming/How to run Dynamic Analysis

Dynamic Analysis focuses on detecting defects at run time, particularly: Uninitialized variables and Memory leaks.

Introduction

This tutorial illustrates how to run dynamic analysis in a small project.

Requisites

You should have completed first the tutorials:

• How to add Tests in CMake
• How to run Code Coverage

Installing Valgrind

Valgrind is the applications that will check your tests at run time and will report their defects.

In Ubuntu and Debian GNU/Linux you can install Valgrind by doing

  sudo apt-get install valgrind

Configuring the Project

Rerun CMake and verify that the variable MEMORYCHECK_COMMAND is set properly:

 cd ${BINARY_DIR}
 make edit_cache

• Hit the "t" key to go to the advanced mode
• Hit the "/" key to search for MEMORYCHECK_COMMAND
• Verify that it points to the valgrind executable that you installed
• Hit the "c" key to configure
• Hit the "g" key to generate and quit

Running the Tests

Run the following commands:

  cd ${BINARY_DIR}
  make ExperimentalStart
  make ExperimentalConfigure
  make ExperimentalBuild
  make ExperimentalTest
  make ExperimentalMemCheck