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Concept
Dynamic program analysis
Summary
Dynamic program analysis is analysis of computer software that involves executing the program in question (as opposed to static program analysis, which does not). Dynamic program analysis includes familiar techniques from software engineering such as unit testing, debugging, and measuring code coverage, but also includes lesser-known techniques like program slicing and invariant inference. Dynamic program analysis is widely applied in security in the form of runtime memory error detection, fuzzing, dynamic symbolic execution, and taint tracking.
For dynamic program analysis to be effective, the target program must be executed with sufficient test inputs to cover almost all possible outputs. Use of software testing measures such as code coverage helps increase the chance that an adequate slice of the program's set of possible behaviors has been observed. Also, care must be taken to minimize the effect that instrumentation has on the execution (including temporal properties) of the target program. Dynamic analysis is in contrast to static program analysis. Unit tests, integration tests, system tests and acceptance tests use dynamic testing.
Computing the code coverage according to a test suite or a workload is a standard dynamic analysis technique.
Gcov is the GNU source code coverage program.
VB Watch injects dynamic analysis code into Visual Basic programs to monitor code coverage, call stack, execution trace, instantiated objects and variables.
Dynamic testing
Dynamic testing involves executing a program on a set of test cases.
AddressSanitizer: Memory error detection for Linux, macOS, Windows, and more. Part of LLVM.
BoundsChecker: Memory error detection for Windows based applications. Part of Micro Focus DevPartner.
Dmalloc: Library for checking memory allocation and leaks. Software must be recompiled, and all files must include the special C header file dmalloc.h.
Intel Inspector: Dynamic memory error debugger for C, C++, and Fortran applications that run on Windows and Linux.
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