[arch-general] unit test generator for shared C/C++ library API

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d.i.y: http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Creating_Packages

On 02/16/2010 11:03 AM, Andrey Ponomarenko wrote:
> Dear colleagues,
> 
> Linux Verification Center at the Institute for System Programming of RAS
> and the Linux Foundation have released a free unit test generator for
> shared C/C++ library API. It helps to quickly generate simple ("sanity"
> or "shallow"-quality) tests for all functions from the library API using
> their signatures and data type definitions straight from the library
> header files. The quality of generated tests allows to check absence of
> critical errors in simple use cases and can be improved by involving of
> highly reusable specialized types for the library.
> 
> This tool can execute generated tests and detect all kinds of emitted signals,
> early program exits, program hanging and specified requirement failures.
> It can be considered as a tool for low-cost sanity checking of library API
> or as a powerful test development framework. Also it supports universal
> Template2Code format of tests, random test generation mode and other useful
> features. This tool is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
> it under the terms of the GNU GPLv2.
> 
> We suppose this tool can be very useful for shared library developers
> and recommend it for including to Arch Linux.
> 
> For more information, please see: 
> http://ispras.linux-foundation.org/index.php/API_Sanity_Autotest
> 
> Andrey Ponomarenko
> Linux Verification Center at the Institute for System Programming of RAS
> 
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