Leak Detection Overview

Resource leaks are fatal errors. You don’t get many of them, but when they occur they will cause the application to crash. Memory and database connections are two of the most common resource leaks. They are elusive errors that are tough, costly and time consuming to find because they do not usually manifest themselves during testing.

Resource leak detection solutions analyze or monitor an application’s runtime execution. They identify when leaks occur and the conditions that cause them, saving developers and testers weeks of debugging time and preventing costly crashes from affecting customers.

Parasoft provides resource leak detection solutions that enable developers and testers to find the memory errors in C/C++ applications as well as connection leaks in SQL databases. Modeling applications at the source code level allows the C/C++ solution to develop the deep understanding of code operation that is required to accurately find memory leaks, corruptions and allocation errors. The database solution monitors the database calls and is able to automatically find open resources, such as connections, statements, or result sets.