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