METHOD FOR TESTING A COMPUTER PROGRAM

A method for testing a computer program. The method includes setting breakpoints on one or more memory access instructions in the computer program; executing the computer program; when one of the set breakpoints is triggered, ascertaining whether the memory access instruction is for accessing a data element that has a size that requires an alignment to the memory address to which it is written or from which it is read, and ascertaining the required alignment; if the memory access instruction is for accessing a data element that has a size that requires an alignment to the memory address to which it is written or from which it is read, ascertaining whether the memory address which the memory access instruction accesses meets the required alignment; in response to ascertaining that the memory address does not meet the required alignment, triggering a display that the computer program has an error.