Re: debbuger or unit test tool

["Jeff C," <jcreem@yahoo.com>]

"Simon Wright" <simon@pushface.org> wrote in message
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> orvio@yahoo.com (orvio) writes:
>
> > In other case, can anyone suggest me another tool for ADA unit test?
>
> We are happy with AUnit <http://libre.act-europe.fr/aunit/>. We did
> evaluate VectorCast, I don't remember the details but my _impression_
> was that the possible advantage of being able to change the test
> script without recompilation was not so big an advantage on fast
> hardware. Also we had trouble getting it to understand our (complex
> GNAT) compilation environment.
>


AUnit might be appropriate in a lot of cases. I've used it a few times at
home
for some projects. Where I think it ends up lacking is management of stubs
for test
cases. Some of the commercial tools can help automate the actual test
generation but
I think that is of limited value given the learning curve for the tool but
automated stub
management would be really nice in my environment (where it quickly becomes
difficult
to manage unit level test cases).