Memory Error Detection

Expose Elusive Errors

Errors such as memory corruption, memory leaks, access outside of array bounds, invalid pointers, and the like often go undetected during normal testing, only to result in application crashes in the field.

Parasoft Test automatically identifies a variety of difficult-to-track programming and memory-access errors, along with potential defects and inefficiencies in memory usage.

Multiple Use Modes

Parasoft Test's patented source instrumentation detects more error types than other memory error detection technologies, and also provides complete information indicating the root causes of the errors found. For example, it tells you exactly when-and at what line of code-a leak occurred.

When full source code instrumentation is not possible or desirable, two "lighter" analysis modes are available:

• Linking with runtime analysis - detects and reports most error types, including leaks, bad memory references, standard API usage errors, etc,.
• Analysis without recompilation or relinking— checks all the data memory references a process makes, reporting reads of uninitialized memory, bounds errors, and memory leaks.