From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: <9983c15c4e25aab223830842de2f9833@9netics.com> To: 9fans@9fans.net Date: Sat, 17 Jul 2010 02:19:56 -0700 From: Skip Tavakkolian <9nut@9netics.com> In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: [9fans] acid question Topicbox-Message-UUID: 3fc83f0c-ead6-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 i've spent some time with acid and i think the answer is no. i wasn't referring to your reply to my acid suggestion on gsoc -- but my question is related to what you asked about unit testing. if there is a way to call arbitrary functions in a program under acid's control, then it should be easy to generate acid scripts to do unit tests. -Skip >> is there a way to do in acid the equivalent to gdb 'call'? > > I have not spent any time with acid so I cannot say definitively, but if > you are referring to the trick I did to develop an embedded regression test > suite was to set break points and then test specific variables or continue > to other break points which revealed the proper behavior as a pass or fail. > I was able to put all this into a series of .gdbinit's. Looking at the > acid documentation it appears that there is an equivalent functionality. > So as long as there is a way to read a configuration file when acid starts, > then yes. If not, then it should be relatively easy to add. > > I hope this answered your question, assuming I was the one you were asking > the question of. > > EBo --