Test Coverage Tools

• AdaTEST 95
• Aivosto VB Watch
• Cantata++
• Plum Hall SQS
• TestWorks/Coverage
• VectorCAST

Kind of Tool

Code Coverage Analyzer for C++/C

Organization

Bullseye Testing Technology
http://www.bullseye.com/

Software Description

BullseyeCoverage is a full-featured code coverage analyzer for C++/C running on Microsoft and Unix operating systems. BullseyeCoverage quickly finds untested code and measures testing completeness. BullseyeCoverage increases testing productivity by showing you the regions of your source code that are not adequately tested.

Platforms

Windows and Unix

Entry updated January 7, 2003.
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Insure++

Kind of Tool

Runtime error detection, memory monitor, coverage analysis

Organization

ParaSoft Corporation
http://www.parasoft.com/

Software Description

Insure++ is a powerful automatic runtime error detection tool for C/C++ that improves software quality, accelerates time to market, and reduces development costs. Insure++ automatically detects errors in your code, regardless of whether you know they exist. Insure++ identifies compile-time, runtime and algorithmic errors, including memory corruption, operations on uninitialized, NULL, or "wild" pointers, memory leaks, errors that allocate and free dynamic memory, operations on unrelated pointers, and more. Insure++ includes a graphical "Malloc Monitor" that helps developers understand how their programs manipulate memory and a total coverage analysis tool that provides information about which pieces of the code have been tested to insure that all of the program is bug-free, not just the most frequently used parts.

Platforms

SunOS, HP, IBM RS6000, SGI 5.X, Digital UNIX, Lynx, Linux, SCO

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Kind of Tool

C and C++ code coverage

Organization

Testwell Oy
http://www.testwell.fi/ctcdesc.html

Software Description

CTC++ (Test Coverage Analyzer for C/C++) is an instrumentation-based tool for measuring test coverage and studying the dynamic behaviour of C and C++ programs. CTC++ is available in two packages: 1) as a host-based tool ("CTC++") and 2) as a tool, which facilitates coverage measuring in target platforms ("CTC++ Host-Target & Kernelcoverage"). GUI integration to Visual C++.

Platforms

Windows 2000/NT/9x, HPUX, Solaris, Linux.

Entry updated April 23, 2001.
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Kind of Tool

Ada code coverage

Organization

Testwell Oy
http://www.testwell.fi/

Software Description

TCMON (Test Coverage Monitor and Program Bottleneck Finder for Ada'83) is an instrumentation-based tool for measuring test coverage and studying the dynamic behaviour of Ada programs. Read more from http://www.testwell.fi/tcmdesc.html.

Platforms

Windows 2000/NT/9x, VAX/VMS, Solaris. Ask also for source code licensing (written in 'vanilla' Ada'83). On a given platform independent of the used Ada compiler.

Entry updated April 23, 2001.
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Kind of Tool

C test coverage (freeware)

Organization

Testing Foundations
913 W. White
Champaign IL 61821
Phone and fax: 217-351-7228
E-mail: http://www.testing.com/

Software Description

The Generic Coverage Tool (GCT) is a freeware coverage tool that measures how thoroughly tests exercise C programs. It measures branch, multicondition, loop, relational operator, routine, call, race, and weak mutation coverage for C programs. See cs.uiuc.edu: pub/misc/testing/GCT.README

Platforms

Most UNIX

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Kind of Tool

Test Coverage Analysis Tool

Organization

Software Research, Inc.
http://www.soft.com/TestWorks/

Software Description

TCAT C/C++ coverage analysis tool, part of the TestWorks/Coverage suite, uses a new consolidated C and C++ instrumentor to measure logical path and branch completeness at the individual function level (C1) and at the system level (S1). This new compiler-based technology combines the functionality of previous releases of TCAT and S-TCAT.

TCAT C/C++ measures the number of times logical branches have been exercised for both True and False conditions using its C1 metric. The S1 measurement expresses test effectiveness as the percentage of function-calls exercised in a program by a set of tests, relative to the number of such function-calls in the system.

TCAT C/C++ instruments the program, placing markers at each logical branch and function-call. When test cases have been run against the instrumented code, the C1 and S1 metrics collect data on the markers and store it in a trace file, from which TCAT C/C++ extracts information to create tabular coverage reports that show which code remains untested or frequently tested, and which test cases duplicate coverage. TCAT C/C++ also creates an archive file that stores all cumulative test information.

Platforms

SPARC SunOS 4.1.3; SPARC Solaris 2.3, 2.4, 2.5, 2.5.1, 2.6; x86 Solaris 2.4, 2.5; RS-6000/AIX 3.2.5, 4.1.2, 4.2; HP-9000/7xx HP-UX 9.05, 10.10; HP-9000/8xx HP-UX 9.04, 10.01, 10.10; x86 SCO/ODT 2.0, 5.0(3.0); SGI Irix 5.3, 6.2; DEC-Alpha OSF1 3.2, 4.0; NCR 3000; SCO/UnixWare 2.1.1; DOS; MS-Windows 95/98/NT/2000

Entry updated October 23, 2003.
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Kind of Tool

Path Coverage Analysis Tool

Organization

Software Research, Inc.
http://www.soft.com/TestWorks/

Software Description

TCAT-PATH is a path coverage analysis tool that works as a stand-alone product or as part of the fully integrated TestWorks/Coverage tool suite. TCAT-PATH analyzes a large number of module paths (sequences of logical branches) by grouping paths into equivalence classes, including multiple instances of iterations. For critical modules, path coverage can be used to extend TestWorks/Coverage's TCAT logical branch coverage at the unit test level. While TCAT's C1 metric determines how many logical branches in a module are exercised, TCAT-PATH's Ct metric determines how many of the possible path combinations in a module are exercised.

Platforms

SPARC SunOS 4.1.3; SPARC Solaris 2.3, 2.4, 2.5, 2.5.1, 2.6; x86 Solaris 2.4, 2.5; RS-6000/AIX 3.2.5, 4.1.2, 4.2; HP-9000/7xx HP-UX 9.05, 10.10; HP-9000/8xx HP-UX 9.04, 10.01, 10.10; x86 SCO/ODT 2.0, 5.0(3.0); SGI Irix 5.3, 6.2; DEC-Alpha OSF1 3.2, 4.0; NCR 3000; SCO/UnixWare 2.1.1; DOS;

Entry updated October 23, 2003.
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Kind of Tool

Code Coverage Analysis Tool

Organization

IBM Rational Software
http://www.rational.com/products/purecoverage/

Software Description

Rational PureCoverage® is a powerful code coverage analysis tool designed for use by developers and testers during daily unit tests to increase software quality by preventing untested code from reaching end users.  It is unsurpassed for ease of use and flexibility. With a single click, you can take advantage of an annotated source view that provides line-by-line analysis of either tested or untested code.

Platforms

UNIX Platforms
Sun SPARC� workstations running Solaris 2.4 through 2.6
HP9000 Series 700 workstations running HP-UX 10.0x through 11.00
HP9000 Series 800 workstations running HP-UX 10.0x through 11.00
HP-UX 11.0 for narrow-mode applications only (no 64-bit pointers)
NT Platforms
Windows NT 4.0 or above (including Japanese Windows NT 4.0)

Listing Updated June 7, 1999
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Kind of Tool

Static Analysis and Code Coverage tool suite

Organization

LDRA
http://www.ldra.com/testbed.asp

Software Description

LDRA Testbed is a unique quality control tool that provides powerful source code analysis and testing facilities for the validation and verification of software applications.

Static Analysis analyses the code and provides an understanding of the code structure. The analysis capabilities include programming standards verification, structured programming verification, complexity metric production, full variable cross reference, unreachable code reporting, static data flow analysis, code reformatting, information flow analysis, loop analysis, analysis of recursive procedures and procedure interface analysis.

Dynamic Analysis analyses the code and provides an understanding of the code structure and measures code coverage of statements, branches, test paths (lcsaj coverage), sub conditions, & procedure calls. Several coverage levels are available including MC/DC level A of the DO-178B standard.

The tool suite is available for C, C++, Ada83, Ada95 & Assemblers (Intel, Freescale and Texas Instruments).

Platforms

Windows 9x/NT/2000/XP, Unix (Sun Solaris & HP-UX), Linux (Red Hat/Fedora, SUSE, Debian, Thalix) and HP OpenVMS (Alpha & IA-64 Itanium)

Entry updated May 17, 2007.
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Kind of Tool

Quality and Productivity for the development, test and maintenance of software applications

Organization

IBM
http://www.telelogic.com/products/logiscope/

Software Description

1) LOGISCOPE TestChecker: Measures the completeness of tests implemented on your application regardless of whether performed on host or target platforms in terms of source code test coverage. Highlights areas of non-executed code (i.e., not checked) during tests.
- Displays test coverage "on-line", i.e., during the execution of the test (even when it is performed on a target platform)
- Identifies effective non regression if program files have been modified
- Identifies inefficient test (regarding test coverage level)
- Identifies test conditions required to test unreached parts of the application,
- Record and re-execute tests cases automatically

2) LOGISCOPE RuleChecker: Checks coding rules, naming conventions and presentation rules. It allows you to select rules from the set of 50 pre-established rules provided with the tool, or introduce rules specific to your company, reused from one project to another.

3) LOGISCOPE ImpactChecker: It proposes a request system for checking the use of resources. These requests are relevant to location, type of data used and dependencies between data.

4) LOGISCOPE Audit: is a graphic tool used to evaluate program quality. It provides users with relevant diagnosis based on computation of a set of software metrics (more than 90). Maintenance teams can rely on graphic overviews to understand the program logic and architecture.

Platforms

UNIX: sun, hp, ibm, digital / WINDOWS

Entry updated April 28, 1998.
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Kind of Tool

Family of software verification tools for embedded systems

Organization

Freescale Semiconductor Inc.
http://www.codewarrior.com/MW/Products/Integration.htm

Software Description

CodeTEST is the first software verification tool suite specifically designed for embedded systems software. CodeTEST traces embedded programs and verifies software performance, test coverage, and memory allocation.

CodeTEST can monitor an entire program at once, eliminating the difficulty of deciding what part of the program to watch, and how to set up the tool for each measurement. It can produce reliable traces and measurements when programs are executed out of cache or are dynamically relocated.

The CodeTEST tool suite includes:

Performance Analysis

• Measures function and task execution times
• Counts call-pair linkages to identify thrashing
• Non-sampled measurements of 32,000 functions at one time

Coverage Analysis

• Displays coverage at program, function, or source levels
• Plots coverage over time
• Interactive measurements simplify test creation and refinement

Memory Allocation Analysis

• Dynamic display shows memory leaks in progress before system crashes
• Pinpoints memory allocation and free errors to offending source line
• Measures true worst case allocation

Trace Analysis

• Traces embedded programs at source, control-flow, or high (task) level
• Deep trace captures over 100 thousand source lines of execution
• Powerful triggering and trace display options zero in on problems

Platforms

MS Windows, Sun Sparc, HP 9000

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Kind of Tool

Test Coverage Analysis Tool

Organization

Software Research, Inc.
http://www.soft.com/TestWorks/

Software Description

TCAT for Java is a test coverage analysis tool configured specifically for Java applets and for use on Java-enabled browsers. Developers of animated Web sites can use TCAT for Java to determine that their Java applets are fully exercised by their test suites -- a critical quality verification when Java applets support financial transactions on the Web. TCAT for Java provides the programmer with a concise summary of the logical conditions executed and not executed during test runs of the program. TCAT for Java does this by instrumenting every conditional statement in the program, identifies the true an false paths, and produces execution time reports -- all automatically.

Platforms

SPARC SunOS 4.1.3; SPARC Solaris 2.3, 2.4, 2.5, 2.5.1, 2.6; x86 Solaris 2.4, 2.5; RS-6000/AIX 3.2.5, 4.1.2, 4.2; HP-9000/7xx HP-UX 9.05, 10.10; HP-9000/8xx HP-UX 9.04, 10.01, 10.10; x86 SCO/ODT 2.0, 5.0(3.0); SGI Irix 5.3, 6.2; DEC-Alpha OSF1 3.2, 4.0; NCR 3000; SCO/UnixWare 2.1.1; DOS; MS-Windows 95/98/NT/2000

Entry updated October 23, 2003.
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Kind of Tool

Rational Test RealTime Coverage brings efficient, easy-to-use, robust coverage technologies to real-time embedded systems.

Organization

IBM Rational Software
http://www.rational.com/

Software Description

Rational Test RealTime Coverage has the flexibility to address all the coverage needs of developers and QA according to the verification phase of the development or maintenance process, the coverage level and rate to be achieved, and the specific testing requirements. The Coverage feature does this by providing nine code-coverage levels:

Integration testing: assesses actual program call graph coverage:

1. Function/procedure entries
2. Function/procedure entries and exits
3. Call-pair

Module testing: verifies covered statement density for:

4. Statement block coverage
5. Decision coverage
6. Loop coverage
7. Basic condition

Checks compliance with safety-critical testing requirement standards such as DO-178B Level A:

8. Modified condition/decision coverage (MC/DC)
9. Multiple conditions

Find out more about Rational Test RealTime at: http://www.rational.com/products/testrt/.

Platforms

Rational Test RealTime is available for most development and target systems including Windows, Unix (Solaris, HP-UX, Linux)

Entry updated May 22, 2002.
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Kind of Tool

Specification-Based Test Case and Script Generator

Organization

Aonix North America, Inc.
http://www.aonix.com/

Software Description

Validator/Req reads spcifications as models and generates, that is it designs and documents, test cases and test scripts. Validator/Req generates the fewest test cases that will exercise every specified or modled action and every historicallt frequent failure.

Platforms

Windows/NT, SOLARIS, UNIX OSs on many hardware platforms

Entry updated December 11, 2001.
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Kind of Tool

TCA is a tool developers can use to determine the coverage of Insure++.

Organization

ParaSoft Corporation
http://www.parasoft.com/

Entry added April 4, 2001.
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Kind of Tool

Test Coverage Analyzer for Java

Organization

Semantic Designs, Inc.
http://www.semdesigns.com/Products/TestCoverage/index.html

Software Description

The Java Test Coverage Tool enables testers to evaluate how thoroughly their tests exercise Java software systems. The tool can handle extremely large Java suites, has very low probe overhead so realtime performance is minimally affected, can test standalone Java applications and/or servlets, and can combine multiple test runs for coverage summaries and displays. The Java Test Coverage tool is a member of larger family of coverage tools, customizable for unusual languages and/or execution environments.

Platforms

Probe installer operates on Win/NT, Win2K, WinXP Java applications under test and the coverage display tool can run on any Java2 platform.

Entry updated March 15, 2002.
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Kind of Tool

Ant-based Code Coverage tool for Java

Organization

Atlassian Pty Ltd
http://www.atlassian.com/software/clover/

Software Description

Clover is a low cost code coverage tool for Java. It is tightly integrated with the popular Ant build tool. If you are using Ant to build your project, Clover can be integrated into your build process quickly and easily.

Clover provides accurate, configurable coverage analysis. Clover gathers Method, Statement and Branch coverage data. Compile-time properties and source level directives allow for precise control over the coverage gathering process.

Coverage reporting is in XML, HTML, or via a Swing GUI. Report-time options allow for the exclusion of particular statement types from coverage analysis.

Free licenses are available for Open Source projects.

Platforms

Any Java 2 platform. Tested on Windows NT,2000,XP, Linux, Solaris. Works with Ant 1.4.1 or greater.

Entry updated June 14, 2002.
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Kind of Tool

Code coverage analyzer for Java applications.

Organization

Koalog SARL
http://www.koalog.com/

Software Description

Koalog Code Coverage is a code coverage computation application written in the Java programming language. Its main features are:

• in-process or remote coverage computation,
• capability of working directly on Java binaries (no recompilation),
• predefined (XML, HTML, LaTeX, CSV, TEXT) or custom report generation,
• session merging,
• portability,
• ease-of-use,
• Ant integration.

Platforms

Linux, Solaris, Windows, Mac OS X

Entry updated November 27, 2002.
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Dynamic Code Coverage

Kind of Tool

Instrumentation-free code coverage for Unix

Organization

Dynamic Memory Solutions
http://www.dynamic-memory.com/

Software Description

Dynamic Code Coverage re-invents the test coverage tool.

Dynamic Code Coverage does not require any compile/link time instrumentation. Through an innovative strategy, runtime instrumentation is used to gather coverage information.

Each function/method, line, decision and branch is evaluated for execution. As the process runs, a detailed coverage file is accumulated. Coverage files from multiple runs can be assembled together. The result is a detailed Coverage Analysis of a particular process.

With Dynamic Code Coverage information can be gathered at any point in the software lifecycle. In development, Dynamic Code Coverage can be used for unit testing. In testing, Dynamic Code Coverage can be used to determine test suite effectiveness. In pre-production, Dynamic Code Coverage can determine which modules are of most interest to a particular customer. In production, Dynamic Code Coverage can be used to determine which features and modules are actually being used.

With this wealth of information, an incremental, iterative strategy can be developed to make sure all of the software is tested before it makes it to your customers.

The output can be summarized in a variety of ways in order get different views on the depth of coverage. Each source file can be annotated with function, line, decision and branch information.

Platforms

Solaris, Linux

Entry updated July 15, 2004.
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Kind of Tool

Decision-level Java Coverage Tool

Organization

Alvicom
http://www.alvicom.hu/products/JavaCov

Software Description

JavaCov is a coverage-testing Eclipse plugin which can be used in various J2SE and J2EE projects. JavaCov is capable of verifying the so-called MC/DC (Modified Condition/Decision Coverage) testing criterion. It monitors each branch and MC/DC criterion, even in the case of multi-thread applications. It monitors the coverage contribution of new test cases. Test cases are optimized. The test cases covering a certain branch can be displayed. It is also supports Apache Ant, and generates HTML/XML reports.

Platforms

Java+

Entry updated July 13, 2006.
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Kind of Tool

Code Coverage Tool for C/C++

Organization

CoverageMeter
http://www.coveragemeter.com/

Software Description

CoverageMeter is a complete code coverage tool chain. It analyzes the performance of a software validation and permits to optimizes the testing process of a C/C++ applications: finding untested code sections, reducing the amount of tests by finding redundant tests, finding unused source code. (dead code), ... CoverageMeter instruments your source code during the compilation and generates an instrumented program. The instrumented program keeps track of the code instructions that were executed while the program was running and produces an execution report (csexe file) upon program termination. It is composed of 2 tools: CoverageScanner and CoverageBrowser. CoverageScanner is a command line tool which substitutes the compiler. Principally, it inserts instrumentation instructions into the preprocessed source code and calls up the native compiler. (GCC, Borland C, Microsoft Visual C compiler,...) A database (.csmes file), which contains the list of instrumentations and a copy of the instrumented source code, is generated at the same time. CoverageScanner is configurable via a profile and can be adapted to most compilers present on the market. After the generation, the program can be run as usual and produces an execution report on exit. (.csexe file) The execution report can be analyzed and managed using CoverageBrowser. CoverageBrowser is a graphical interface which enables the user to browse and manage the execution reports. It therefore enables the user to find untested code portions, dead code and inefficient tests.

Platforms

Windows and UNIX Systems for the compiler wrapper.

Entry updated May 25, 2006.
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Kind of Tool

Dynamic Test Coverage and Static Complexity Analysis Tool

Organization

McCabe Software, Inc.
http://www.mccabe.com/

Software Description

McCabe IQ provides comprehensive test / code coverage to focus, monitor, and document software testing processes. Using industry-standard testing methods and advanced dynamic analysis techniques, McCabe IQ accurately assesses the thoroughness of your testing and aids in gauging the time and resources needed to ensure a well-tested application.

Platforms

McCabe IQ is platform independent.

Entry updated August 21, 2006.
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