froglogic Releases Valgrind Support For Squish GUI Test
Tool
Sep 6th, 16:05 UTC
froglogic GmbH today announced the availability of support for the Valgrind memory debugger in the GUI test tool Squish for Qt and XView.
Hamburg, Germany - 2005-09-06 froglogic GmbH today announced the
availability of support for the Valgrind memory debugger in the GUI
test tool Squish for Qt and XView.
Squish is the leading GUI test tool for Qt and XView
applications. It allows to easily create, record, edit, debug and run
automated tests in scripting languages like Python, Tcl and
JavaScript. Squish offers command line tools and an easy-to-use IDE to
work with tests and test results.
Valgrind (http://www.valgrind.org) is an award-winning suite
of tools for debugging and profiling Linux programs. With the tools
that come with Valgrind, you can automatically detect many memory
management and threading bugs, avoiding hours of frustrating
bug-hunting, making your programs more stable. You can also perform
detailed profiling, to speed up and reduce memory use of your
programs.
froglogic now developed an add-on for Squish which allows to
execute tests by running the AUT (application under test) through the
Valgrind memory debugger. The results from Valgrind are added to
Squish's test result log of the test run. In addition, the Squish IDE
offers a GUI frontent to inspect the Valgrind log.
"Just like manual testing, the process of manually memory debugging
an application is time-consuming and tedious. So why not combine
automated testing and memory debugging and automatically run the tests
through Valgrind" said Harri Porten, froglogic's Unix Platform Chief
Engineer. "Using this new add-on, our customers can now combine two
great technologies to create even better applications."
The following features are provided by Squish's Valgrind
integration:
- Execute AUT in Valgrind on test runs from Squish IDE
- Execute AUT in Valgrind on test runs from the command line
(squishrunner)
- Valgrind log is added to the result log and flagged as PASS or
FAIL
- Configurable Valgrind options in the Squish IDE
- GUI frontend to hierarchically navigate and inspect Valgrind log
in the Squish IDE
Availability
More information on the Valgrind add-on can be found at http://www.froglogic.com/squish/addons. If
you would like to evaluate or purchase Squish or any of its add-ons,
please contact us at squish@froglogic.com.
About froglogic
froglogic GmbH is a software company offering Qt consultancy
services and Qt-based development tools. froglogic was founded by two
former Trolltech senior engineers, Reginald Stadlbauer and Harri
Porten, who now use their experience and skills to serve the Qt 3rd
party market. froglogic is based in Hamburg, Germany. More about
froglogic at http://www.froglogic.com.
(Submitted by Reginald Stadlbauer of froglogic)
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