Re: Is Aunit helpful?

[Stephen Leake <stephen_leake@stephe-leake.org>]

Midoan <midoan.ses@gmail.com> writes:

>> Midoan <midoan....@gmail.com> writes:
>> > On Aug 14, 6:57 am, Stephen Leake <stephen_le...@stephe-leake.org>
>> > wrote:
>>
>> How can a tool possibly generate expected results? If it reads the code,
>> it can only generate the results that the code _will_ produce. But
>> that's the opposite of a test; the expected results are what the code
>> _should_ produce, based on some other spec (not the Ada spec). A testing
>> process _must_ assume the code is wrong.
>
> Yes of course you are right; and that's what we meant. What we meant
> was that the code's result must always be validated externally of the
> tool. 

Ok, good.

> Mika will simply ask the question "given these inputs, are those
> expected outputs?". 

I suggest you emphasize this point on your website.

If a website describes a tool that claims to "automatically generate
tests", I stop reading, since I know that's a bogus claim.

I would consider a tool that "helps identify all required test cases".

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-- Stephe