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Re: [Qemu-devel] Idea: Qemu as test coverage tool for kernels
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Kyle Hayes |
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Re: [Qemu-devel] Idea: Qemu as test coverage tool for kernels |
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Sun, 29 Jan 2006 22:08:26 -0800 |
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On Saturday 28 January 2006 04:26, Blue Swirl wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Qemu's system emulators could be modified to output information about
> the code areas which have been executed by the virtual CPU. The output
> could then be used in standard test coverage tools. The benefit would be
> the ability to get kernel-level coverage data.
You might want to look a valgrind. The KDE project uses it heavily for
memory leak and other types of problem detection. It is a sort of
intermediate step between an interpreter and Qemu. I'm not sure where it
lives, but Google should find it.
Best,
Kyle