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Additional links:

• Analyzing C/C++ Code Quality by Using Code Analysis
• How to: Set Code Analysis Properties for C/C++ Projects
• Understanding SAL
• Annotating Function Parameters and Return Values
• Annotating Locking Behavior

Portable and easy to use editor to write and test C++11 snippets. It integrates Notepad++ and Stephan T. Lavavej’s MinGW Distro (GCC 4.8.1). You can use F9 key to compile C++ files, and Ctrl+F9 to execute the compiled program.

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Optimization manuals and test programs for measuring clock cycles in C++ and assembly code.

Wireshark is the world’s foremost network protocol analyzer, and is the de facto (and often de jure) standard across many industries and educational institutions.

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static LPTOP_LEVEL_EXCEPTION_FILTER m_previousFilter = NULL;


typedef BOOL (WINAPI *MINIDUMPWRITEDUMP)(HANDLE hProcess, DWORD dwPid, HANDLE hFile, MINIDUMP_TYPE DumpType,
                                         CONST PMINIDUMP_EXCEPTION_INFORMATION ExceptionParam,
                                         CONST PMINIDUMP_USER_STREAM_INFORMATION UserStreamParam,
                                         CONST PMINIDUMP_CALLBACK_INFORMATION CallbackParam);

static LONG WINAPI MyUnhandledExceptionFilter(PEXCEPTION_POINTERS pExceptionInfo)
{
    HMODULE hDll = ::LoadLibrary(_T("DBGHELP.DLL"));
    MINIDUMPWRITEDUMP pDump = (MINIDUMPWRITEDUMP)::GetProcAddress(hDll, "MiniDumpWriteDump");

    _MINIDUMP_EXCEPTION_INFORMATION ExInfo;
    ExInfo.ThreadId = ::GetCurrentThreadId();
    ExInfo.ExceptionPointers = pExceptionInfo;
    ExInfo.ClientPointers = NULL;

    MINIDUMP_CALLBACK_INFORMATION mci;

    // HANDLE hFile - minidamp file name(for example, "test.dmp")

    BOOL bOK = pDump(::GetCurrentProcess(), ::GetCurrentProcessId(),
                     hFile, 1, &ExInfo, NULL, &mci);
}


void main()
{
    // setup our own ExceptionHandler
    m_previousFilter = SetUnhandledExceptionFilter(MyUnhandledExceptionFilter);

    // actial work

    // befoe exit
    if (m_previousFilter)
    {
        SetUnhandledExceptionFilter(m_previousFilter);
    }
}

Application Verifier is designed specifically to detect and help debug memory corruptions and critical security vulnerabilities.

This is achieved by monitoring a native application’s interaction with the Windows operating system, profiling its use of objects, the registry, the file system, and Win32 APIs (including heaps, handles, locks, etc), and indicating issues when and where they are discovered.

Application Verifier also includes checks to predict how well an application may perform under various account privileges. These compatibility tests are used in Windows Logo program.

Print verification tests are also available to verify your usage of the print subsystem.

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Additional links:

• Using Application Verifier Within Your Software Development Lifecycle
• Windows 7 Client Software Logo Toolkit (WSLK)
• Testing Applications with AppVerifier
• Application Verifier для программиста: тестирование Windows-приложений

VMMap is a process virtual and physical memory analysis utility. It shows a breakdown of a process’s committed virtual memory types as well as the amount of physical memory (working set) assigned by the operating system to those types. Besides graphical representations of memory usage, VMMap also shows summary information and a detailed process memory map. Powerful filtering and refresh capabilities allow you to identify the sources of process memory usage and the memory cost of application features.

Besides flexible views for analyzing live processes, VMMap supports the export of data in multiple forms, including a native format that preserves all the information so that you can load back in. It also includes command-line options that enable scripting scenarios.

VMMap is the ideal tool for developers wanting to understand and optimize their application’s memory resource usage.

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CppUnit is a C++ unit testing framework. It started its life as a port of JUnit to C++ by Michael Feathers. For a quick tour of unit testing with CppUnit, see the Cookbook in the latest documentation. For an introduction to unit testing, see UnitTest, ProgrammerTest, and CodeUnitTestFirst.

Features:

• XML output with hooks for additional data (XSL format avaliable in release 1.10.2 needs some FiXing)
• Compiler-like text output to integrate with an IDE
• Helper macros for easier test suite declaration
• Hierarchical test fixture support
• Test registry to reduce recompilation need
• Test plug-in for faster compile/test cycle (self testable dynamic library)
• Protector to encapsulate test execution (allow capture of exception not derived from std::exception)
• MfcTestRunner
• QtTestRunner, a Qt based graphic test runner

This page is a list of tables of code-driven unit testing frameworks for various programming languages. Some but not all of these are based on xUnit.