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diff --git a/open_issues/unit_testing.mdwn b/open_issues/unit_testing.mdwn new file mode 100644 index 00000000..01ed02b3 --- /dev/null +++ b/open_issues/unit_testing.mdwn @@ -0,0 +1,43 @@ +[[!meta copyright="Copyright © 2010 Free Software Foundation, Inc."]] + +[[!meta license="""[[!toggle id="license" text="GFDL 1.2+"]][[!toggleable +id="license" text="Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this +document under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.2 or +any later version published by the Free Software Foundation; with no Invariant +Sections, no Front-Cover Texts, and no Back-Cover Texts. A copy of the license +is included in the section entitled [[GNU Free Documentation +License|/fdl]]."]]"""]] + +A collection of thoughts with respect to unit testing. + +We definitely want to add unit test suites to our code base. + +We should select a tool that we like to use, and that is supported (not +abandoned). + + * [DejaGnu](http://www.gnu.org/software/dejagnu/) / + [Expect](http://expect.nist.gov/) + + * used by GCC, GDB, binutils, etc. + + * glibc has a home-grown system (Makefile-based) + + * [check](http://check.sourceforge.net/) + + * used by some GNU packages, for example GNU PDF (Jose E. Marchesi) + + * CodeSourcery's [QMTest](http://www.codesourcery.com/qmtest) + + * useb by? + + * documentation: + + * <http://www.codesourcery.com/public/qmtest/whitepaper.pdf> + + * <http://www.python.org/workshops/2002-02/papers/01/index.htm> + + * <http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc/2002-05/msg01978.html> + + * <http://www.codesourcery.com/public/qmtest/qmtest-snapshot/share/doc/qmtest/html/tutorial/index.html> + + * <http://www.codesourcery.com/public/qmtest/qmtest-snapshot/share/doc/qmtest/html/manual/index.html> |