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Re: unit testing with autotools
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Ralf Wildenhues |
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Re: unit testing with autotools |
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Tue, 14 Mar 2006 13:51:50 +0100 |
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Hi Chris,
* Chris Pickett wrote on Mon, Mar 13, 2006 at 06:13:07PM CET:
>
> I'd like to do unit testing for test-driven development of C programs.
> I'd also like to use up-to-date autotools. I was wondering if anyone
> had any experience with unit testing in their projects and had
> recommendations, or even if autoconf was considering it for the future.
>
> By unit testing I mean writing multiple small tests for each function in
> an interface. The prescribed development methodology is to write
> failing tests before you write code that will make them pass.
>
> Autotest would be good as a wrapper around a unit-testing framework, but
> not good for driving the actual low-level tests. The same goes for
> DejaGNU.
Out of curiosity: why exactly do Autotest and DejaGNU not qualify for
this job? Which parts are missing?
> I'm also interested in more detailed or "best practice" autotest
> tutorials but the advice in the archives seems to be, "look at other
> projects and existing tutorials and cobble something together."
FWIW, CVS M4 and CVS Libtool use Autotest.
Cheers,
Ralf