IBM Rational PurifyPlus

Rational PurifyPlus for Windows

• Pinpoints hard to find memory errors such as uninitialized memory access, buffer overflow and improper freeing of memory
• Identifies memory leaks (memory blocks that no longer have a valid pointer)
• Highlights application performance bottlenecks and improves application understanding with a graphical representation of function calls
• Identifies untested code with line-level precision
• Does not require access to source code and can thus be used with third-party libraries
• Supports Visual C++, .NET, and Java
• Integrates with Microsoft Visual Studio
• Operating systems supported: Windows

Features and Benefits

Memory corruption detection - Automatically pinpoints hard-to-find bugs
Significantly decreases debugging time. Improves execution reliability

Memory leak detection - Identifies memory blocks that can’t be referenced along with memory blocks that are never freed.
Improves memory utilization.

Application performance profiling - Highlights application performance bottlenecks
Identifies where the time is spent in an application.

Code coverage analysis - Identifies untested code
Determines where the gaps are in test suites.

Binary instrumentation technology - Instruments code at the byte or object level
No recompilation or re-linking is needed to analyze code. Analyzes third-party libraries

IDE Integration - Integrated with Microsoft Visual Studio
No need to switch back and forth between different tools with different user interfaces. Provides for a more cohesive, productive development experience. Helps test and analyze code as it is being created.

Comprehensive programming language support - Supports Microsoft .NET languages as well as Visual C++ and Visual Basic
Provides dynamic software analysis for all aspects of Windows application development.

Selective instrumentation - Allows a user to limit analysis to a subset of the modules comprising an application
Reduces instrumentation and runtime overhead. Limits reporting to modules of interest or responsibility.

Command line interface - Allows a user to run PurifyPlus from the command line
Supports automated testing frameworks.