JavaScript Memory Validator - Feature List

JavaScript Memory Validator has many useful features not found in other memory analysis tools.

Data Views

• Allocations view. Display allocation statistics by allocation location
• Objects view. Display allocation statistics by object type
• Generations view. Display object statistics on a generation by generation basis
• Hotspots view. Display the memory allocation hotspots in your application
• References view. Display the object reference graph for the application
• Memory view. Display the currently allocated memory with callstacks
• Analysis view. Various query facilities for finding objects
• Virtual view. Virtual memory view of your application
• Diagnostic messages. For detecting unforseen errors in the instrumentation. If things are not behaving as you expect, the answer may be here

Data searches

• Object query
• Address query
• Function query

Automatic Regression Tests

• Support for executing from the command line, allowing automated memory usage tests for all your regression tests. The command line also provides control over the HTML and XML export functions
• Support for session comparison, so that multiple sessions can be compared to find the differences between runs. This is vital for regression test support
• Interactive session comparison. You can compare sessions using the user interface and view the results immediately

Data export

• Memory Data can be exported in HTML
• Memory Data can be exported in XML

Startup

• Start by launching a process and injecting into that process at startup

Instrumentation

• Instrumentation is fast, a few seconds, not tens of minutes

No need to modify

• No need to modify your application to use JavaScript Memory Validator

Future proof

• Works with Mozilla Firefox 2.0, 1.5, 1.0.6
• Works with Flock 0.7
• Works with XulRunner 1.8
• Configurable choice of JavaScript (jsNNNN.dll) runtimes, allowing you to choose which JavaScript runtime version you want to use
• What about Internet Explorer support?.

API

• JavaScript API for controlling snapshots, watermarks, data collection etc.

Miscellaneous

• Very configurable, almost all options are configurable by the user. Includes an option to reset to the default settings

Operating Systems

• Microsoft Windows Vista
• Microsoft Windows 2003
• Microsoft Windows XP
• Microsoft Windows 2000
• Microsoft Windows NT 4