Dynamic Code Analysis is a method used to analyze an application during its execution. This Dynamic Code Analysis process is often broken up into these steps:
It is important to note that dynamic code analysis can only be done if source code is successfully compiled into an executable file. You cannot use these tools to analyze code containing compilation and/or build errors.
Dynamic Code Analysis will show you four things:
Dynamic analysis can be performed on programs written in various programming languages: C, C++, Java, C#, PHP, Python, Erlang, and many others.
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