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comp.software.testing Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

comp.sources.testers - Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Performance Simulation Tools ( Shubhendu S. Mukherjee, Sarita V. Adve, Todd Austin, Joel Emer, Peter S. Magnusson ; IEEE Computer Magazine 2002-02)

Asim: A Performance Model Framework ( Joel Emer, Pritpal Ahuja, Eric Borch, Artur Klauser, Chi-Keung Luk, Srilatha Manne, Shubhendu S. Mukherjee, Harish Patil, Steven Wallace, Nathan Binkert, Roger Espasa, Toni Juan ; IEEE Computer Magazine 2002-02)

Using Paths to Measure, Explain, and Enhance Program Behavior ( Thomas Ball, James R. Larus ; IEEE Computer Magazine 2000-07)

SPEC CPU2000: Measuring CPU Performance in the New Millennium ( John L. Henning ; IEEE Computer Magazine 2000-07)

Finding Performance Improvements: Excerpt from The Practice of Programming ( Brian Kernighan, Rob Pike ; IEEE Software Magazine 1999-03)

Toward Automatic Detection of Software Failures ( Tony Savor, Rudolph E. Seviora ; IEEE Computer Magazine 1998-08)

Fault Injection Techniques and Tools ( Mei-Chen Hsueh, Timothy K. Tsai, Ravishankar K. Iyer ; IEEE Computer Magazine 1997-04)

PC Software Performance Tuning ( Mark Atkins, Ramesh Subramaniam ; IEEE Computer Magazine 1996-08)

Better development with BoundsChecker ( David C. Sastry, J.m. Jagadeesh ; IEEE Computer Magazine 1996-06)

SPEC as a Performance Evaluation Measure ( Ran Giladi, Niv Ahituv ; IEEE Computer Magazine 1995-08)

Efficient program tracing ( ; IEEE Computer Magazine 1993-05)

Concurrent Runtime Monitoring of Formally Specified Programs ( Sriram Sankar, Manas Mandal ; IEEE Computer Magazine 1993-03)

Benchmark Characterization ( Thomas M. Conte, Wen-mei W. Hwu ; IEEE Computer Magazine 1991-01)

An Overview of Common Benchmarks ( Reinhold P. Weicker ; IEEE Computer Magazine 1990-12)

Exploring Algorithms Using Balsa-II ( Marc H. Brown ; IEEE Computer Magazine 1988-05)

This program crashes before it even runs! []

I have a program that seems to run correctly, but then crashes as it's exiting. []

This program runs perfectly on one machine, but I get weird results on another. []

Why does the code "char *p = "hello, world!"; p[0] = 'H';" crash? []

What does "Segmentation violation'' mean? []

How can I track down these pesky malloc problems? []

I just typed in this program, and it's acting strangely. Can you see anything wrong with it? []

How can I shut off the "warning: possible pointer alignment problem'' message which lint gives me for each call to malloc? []

Unix Programming FAQ How can I debug the children after a fork? []

Unix Programming FAQ How can I generate a stack dump from within a running program? []

HA Metrics on Non-clustered Systems? [2001/09/21]

How Do You Deal w/ "Heisenbugs"? [2001/04/11]

Performance Testing [ 1998/08/09]

Questions and Answers

kdump(1) - display kernel trace data {oss}

ktrace(1) - enable kernel process tracing {oss}

KProf - A KDE2 visual tool helping developers to analyze the profiling results generated by gprof(1). {(L)GPL}

BabyLakos: Makefiles for Levelization - This is a collection of files to implement a simple version of John Lakos' amazing book _Large-scale C++ Software Design_. The goal is to decrease the overhead of implementing levelization. {(L)GPL}

Greg - is a framework for testing other programs and libraries. {GPL,GNU}

gdb - is a source-level debugger for C, C++ and Fortran. {GPL,GNU}

DejaGnu - is a framework to test programs with a single front end for all tests. {GPL,GNU}

Nana - is a package for programming and testing debugging assertions. {GPL,GNU}

fuzz-0.6 - Tool for testing software by bombarding the program with random data

cpuburn-1.4 - CPU/memory stress testing utilities

ubench-0.32 - Unix Benchmark Utility for CPU(s) and memory

p5-Devel-StackTrace-0.85 - Stack trace and stack trace frame objects

p5-Log-TraceMessages-1.1 - Perl extension for trace messages used in debugging

bonnie-1.0 - Performance Test of Filesystem I/O.

bytebench-3.1 - The BYTE magazine benchmark suite.

dbs-1.1.5 - A distributed network benchmarking system.

iozone-2.01 - Performance Test of Sequential File I/O (older version)

lmbench-1.1 - A system performance measurement tool

nbench-2.1 - BYTE Magazine's native benchmarks

netperf-2.1.3_1 - Rick Jones' <raj@cup.hp.com> network performance benchmarking package

tet-3.3h - An test execution framework from the Open Group

musbus - MUSBUS 5.0 -- Monash University Benchmark {oss}

lcomp - Statement count profiling {oss}

choose - A program to select lines at random {oss}

byte-benchmarks - Byte Unix benchmarks {oss}

crashme - stress-test your U**X kernel {oss}

plum-benchmarks - Plum-Hall benchmarks for timing common C operations {oss}

AIXsyscall - syscall(2) and system call tracing for AIX {oss}

ltrace - A library call tracer {GPL}

strace - System call tracing utility (like trace, truss, etc) {BSL}

Iprobe Tool Suite - Alpha/Linux performance tool

LeakTracer - Trace memory leaks in C++ programs {freely distributable}

Caliber-RBT - Caliber-RBT is a functional test case design tool that utilizes a mathematically rigorous technique to generate minimum set of test case definitions to detect a 'fault' in the functional operation of the system under test. Application, language and platfo [Minimum System Requirements: Windows 95/98/NT/2000] {comm}

Applications and Utilities

ptrace (2) - process tracing and debugging {oss}

ktrace (2) - process tracing {oss}

profil (2) - control process profiling {oss}

clock (3) - determine processor time used {oss}

moncontrol monstartup (3) - control execution profile {oss}

kvm_nlist (3) - retrieve symbol table names from a kernel image {oss}

nlist (3) - retrieve symbol table name list from an executable file {oss}

nana-2.4 - Support for assertion checking and logging using GNU C and GDB

fnccheck-1.2 - A profiling library/utilities for C/C++ programs

ltrace-0.3.6 - Dynamic Library Tracer -- similar to strace, but it traces library calls

p5-Carp-Assert-0.17 - Executable comments like the ANSI C library assert.h

linux_kdump-1.4 - Linux-compatability ktrace.out processor

p5-TraceFuncs-0.1 - A perl5 module to trace function calls as they happen

Libraries and Functions

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Software Quality - Software correctness and reliability

Software Maintenance - Perfecting, adapting, and improving existing systems

See also: (Activity Specific) Software Debugging and Testing

See also: Process Creation and Control - covers child process control (like sending signals), renice, fork, et al

Allocated memory debugging - Methods of debugging and tracing allocations of memory, detecting leaks, overruns, corruption, etc.

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