Memory leakage testing

[andywer]

There should be an easy way to test your code for memory leaks. Basically a straight-forward, generic way to write tests for memory inspection using memwatch.

Scenario: memwatch (https://github.com/marcominetti/node-memwatch) is used on your (existing) unit tests which are run multiple times each. (Initial idea, suffers from some fundamental issues)

Idea

Write memory-leakage tests as new test type. Set up environment using a before hook, write tests, finally heap snapshotting and leak detection.

To Be Defined

• Do we need to write a test runner (based on an existing one) or can we provide a tool to be used in a test (run by a test-runner of the user's choice)

[andywer]

Difference to drool: It's about testing code in general. Drool is only for DOM operations in the browser.

[andywer]

Current state after ~2h of thinking and hacking:

[andywer]

The eagle has landed: https://github.com/andywer/leakage

Closing this idea 😊