Is it possible to profile memory usage of unit tests?

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Rowland Shaw picture Rowland Shaw · May 28, 2010 · Viewed 7.3k times · Source

I'm looking at building some unit tests to ascertain if resources are leaking (or not) using the unit testing framework that comes with Visual Studio.

At present, I'm evaluating the latest version of ANTS Profiler, but I can't quite work out if it allows me to force a snapshot from code (so that I can take a snapshot, run a unit test a few hundred times, force a garbage collection, and take another snapshot, and save the results out for later analysis).

Is this possible to do with ANTS/Visual Studio or should I be exploring options with other profilers?

Answer

Fedor Reznik picture Fedor Reznik · Apr 16, 2015

Have you seen dotmemory from JetBrains?

dotMemory Unit is a unit testing framework which allows you to write tests that check your code for all kinds of memory issues.

For example:

When you need to simply evaluate the amount of memory allocated in a test, you can use the AssertTraffic attribute. This flexible attribute allows you to filter traffic data by object type, interface, or namespace.

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