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From: conklin@kaleida.com (J.T. Conklin)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions
Subject: Re: Is there a C test suite?
Date: 12 Jan 1994 19:46:31 GMT
Organization: Winning Strategies, Inc.
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In-reply-to: jmonroy@netcom.com's message of Wed, 12 Jan 1994 14:00:52 GMT
Jesus> At a recent meeting of he SVNET, a person from cygnus stated
Jesus> that the test suite they had (for GNU) is working. I'm not
Jesus> sure where to get it.
They do have test suites for the tools they produce (gcc, g++, gdb,
etc.), and there is a first cut at a math library test. There is work
going on FROST, the Free Operating System Testsuite. No code (yet),
but discussion what is needed for testing POSIX.1 assertions.
I am currently working on a "proof of concept" first cut which I will
be submitting to Rob Savoye (the FROST coordinator) soon. It doesn't
test all the assertions, but should provide the framework such that
more people can develop the testsuite concurrently.
--jtc
PS. Like all GNU/Cygnus testsuites, FROST will be written for DejaGNU
(the test framework is written in Tcl). I don't know how
difficult it will be to get DejaGNU running on OS/2.