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