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Valgrind automated tests - are they used somewhere?

Do you think running a lot of automated tests based on the valgrind toolkit makes sense? Have you heard or seen such a setup in action? What automatic (free from human intuition) actions could perform such a setup?

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That would make sense if you were checking for memory problems / bad code as part of unit testing or final assembly testing. Two approaches are possible:

  • writing a test tool that will use the valgrind API through its library, largely creating a user interface that replaces the valgrind executable (it seems like a headache)
  • Valgrind can also output XML for memcheck (option -xml = yes)
  • Use Expect http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Expect to automate the valgrind command and check the output
  • Write shell scripts that run valgrind and grep output
  • Perhaps add this functionality to something like DejaGNU that uses expect and tcl

Perhaps these tools can automatically create error elements in your tracker (although they can fill up quickly).

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