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From: EBo <ebo@sandien.com>
To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net>
Subject: Re: [9fans] acid question
Date: Sat, 17 Jul 2010 06:15:05 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <e9a530d4252e92b51fff289c86b25c30@swcp.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <9983c15c4e25aab223830842de2f9833@9netics.com>


> i've spent some time with acid and i think the answer is no.

What is the hold up?

> 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.

I would not say arbitrary, but you can start a program and play around in
the internals.  So, I think we agree.  One the other hand, a mixture of
little test programs and acid scripts might be able to do the same thing.

  EBo --




  reply	other threads:[~2010-07-17 12:15 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-07-17  8:33 Skip Tavakkolian
2010-07-17  8:48 ` EBo
2010-07-17  9:19   ` Skip Tavakkolian
2010-07-17 12:15     ` EBo [this message]
2010-07-17 15:00 ` Philippe Anel
2010-07-17 15:56   ` Philippe Anel
2010-07-17 16:46     ` cinap_lenrek
2010-07-17 16:48     ` cinap_lenrek
2010-07-17 17:23     ` Skip Tavakkolian
2010-07-17 17:58       ` Philippe Anel
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2005-01-08  3:36 Tim Newsham
2005-01-08  5:41 ` Rob Pike
2005-01-08  6:34   ` Tim Newsham
2005-01-08 21:46 ` Tim Newsham

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