Force TestStand Crash to Test Crash Recovery

[bienieck]

How can I force SeqEdit crash to test crash recovery? Crash due to out of memory is not supported in the crash recovery procedure.

[Scott_Richardson]

Causing an exception in a non-execution thread that cannot be handled by TestStand, so the following C++ code causes a crash, which I would hope would be caught in the TestStand handler that you want to test:

// dllmain.cpp : Defines the entry point for the DLL application.
#include "pch.h"
#include <stdexcept>  // For std::runtime_error


BOOL APIENTRY DllMain( HMODULE hModule,
                       DWORD  ul_reason_for_call,
                       LPVOID lpReserved
                     )
{
    switch (ul_reason_for_call)
    {
    case DLL_PROCESS_ATTACH:
    case DLL_THREAD_ATTACH:
    case DLL_THREAD_DETACH:
    case DLL_PROCESS_DETACH:
        break;
    }
    return TRUE;
}

#include <windows.h>
#include <process.h>  // For _beginthreadex

// Function that the thread will execute
unsigned __stdcall ThreadFunction(void* param)
{
    // Do something here
    MessageBox(NULL, L"Thread Function Called!", L"Thread Message", MB_OK);
    
    throw std::runtime_error("Exception from DLL");

    return 0;
}

// Function that creates the new thread
extern "C" __declspec(dllexport) void CreateNewThread()
{
    // Create a thread that runs ThreadFunction
    uintptr_t threadHandle = _beginthreadex(
        NULL,               // Default security attributes
        0,                  // Default stack size
        ThreadFunction,     // Pointer to the thread function
        NULL,               // Thread function parameter
        0,                  // Run immediately after creation
        NULL                // Optionally receive thread identifier
    );

    if (threadHandle == 0) {
        MessageBox(NULL, L"Failed to create thread", L"Error", MB_OK);
    }
    else {
        // Optionally close the thread handle if not needed
        CloseHandle((HANDLE)threadHandle);
    }
}