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From: Andrew Cagney <cagney@redhat.com>
To: frysk <frysk@sourceware.org>
Subject: frysk.expunit, Expect like functionality within JUnit
Date: Wed, 31 Jan 2007 18:30:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <45C0E033.2060808@redhat.com> (raw)

Hello,

The Expect program lets the user interact with a console based program, 
sending it input and checking its output.  The existing testing 
framework dejagnu builds on expect.

The package frysk.expunit provides functionality similar to Expect, but 
in a way that integrates into the JUnit framework.  By doing this, 
developers:

-> need only learn JUnit, and this extension, and not an entirely new 
language (tcl/tk) and test framework (dejagnu)

-> are able to implement tests in a similar consistent manner, in 
particular, first problem indicates failure - frameworks such as dejagnu 
have a very different testing model, allowing a failing test to bumble 
on regardless

With this in place I'll look at a few of the existing dejagnu tests, see 
how well they translate, and how workable the existing interfaces are.

See 
http://sourceware.org/frysk/javadoc/public/frysk/expunit/package-summary.html
for a simple example.  Critic, expecially of the workability of the 
interfaces, most welcome.

Andrew

PS: This proved to be a good way of expanding the testing of 
frysk.sys.PseudoTerminal

             reply	other threads:[~2007-01-31 18:30 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-01-31 18:30 Andrew Cagney [this message]
2007-02-02 20:52 ` Phil Muldoon
2007-02-02 21:10   ` Andrew Cagney

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