Itamar Turner Trauring • 1/14/2025

Catching memory leaks with your test suite

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This article explains how to detect memory and resource leaks using your existing test suite. It covers the nature of memory leaks, when testing is an effective strategy, and provides a practical guide for implementing leak detection in pytest to prevent program crashes and instability.

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