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From: EBo <ebo@sandien.com>
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Subject: Re: [9fans] acid question
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> 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 --