From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: * X-Spam-Status: No, score=1.3 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,INVALID_MSGID, MSGID_RANDY autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,313a106b8dd38f30 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Thread: f43e6,313a106b8dd38f30 X-Google-Attributes: gidf43e6,public From: ian_gilchrist@my-dejanews.com Subject: Re: RATIONAL TESTMATE for ADA Testing - Any experiences to share ? Date: 1999/05/26 Message-ID: <7ih01p$q87$1@nnrp1.deja.com>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 482308326 References: <374667df@news.compd.com> <7i99ls$lv$1@ins8.netins.net> X-Http-Proxy: NetCache@cache.www.uk.psi.net: Version 3.3.1D4, 1.0 x35.deja.com:80 (Squid/1.1.22) for client 154.32.107.70 Organization: Deja.com - Share what you know. Learn what you don't. X-Article-Creation-Date: Wed May 26 14:02:02 1999 GMT Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada,comp.software-eng X-Http-User-Agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 4.01; Windows 95) Date: 1999-05-26T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: In article <7i99ls$lv$1@ins8.netins.net>, "Brian Collins" wrote: > Dave, > > I have used the Testmate MCDC tool on many verification projects involving > embedded avionics software. If your code uses the Rational Ada compiler and > the workstation you are using it on is both the host and target environment, > then everything is very cool and this is a very slick tool to use. When you > deviate from those two rules the tool continues to operate, but it will take > a lot more effort to keep it going. You can still keep the test cases in > Testmate and keep track of your verification effort, but it becomes much > less automated. In our environment we have to deviate from both rules by > first using a non-Apex cross-compiler via RCI and by second having our > target environment in our actual hardware box and not on the workstation. > Breaking the first rule causes us some grief sometimes with code that simply > will not instrument, but this is pretty rare and usually has to do with the > differences between the cross-compiler's understanding of Ada and Apex's > understanding of Ada. Breaking the second rule is what hurts us the most by > not having the test cases automated which takes the most time to create each > test case and test by hand all of our decisions and conditions in our code > then giving Testmate the results. If you have an automated way of runing > through your test cases with scripts and collecting coverage, then you will > really like this tool. Where can I get information on the other tools you > mentioned? Thank you. You can find out more about AdaTEST by looking at the IPL Web page (www.iplbath.com/tools). AdaTEST operates on both host and target environments and also provides MC/DC coverage analysis. Ian Gilchrist --== Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/ ==-- ---Share what you know. Learn what you don't.---