From: Dean Wampler <deanwampler@...>
Date: 2008-02-13T12:29:09+09:00
Subject: Re: How do C programmers do unit testing?

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On Feb 12, 2008 10:55 AM, M. Edward (Ed) Borasky <znmeb@cesmail.net> wrote:
> This may seem like a silly question, but how do C programmers (assume
> gcc/linux for now) do behavior-driven/test-driven development? Aside
> from the obvious cheat (using RSpec to compile, link and execute the C
> code) are there tools in C to do this?

I blogged about the "obvious cheat" recently. It's an "automate-able" way to
expose C and C++ to Ruby, and hence RSpec, using SWIG. (That is, it could be
automated and I hope to do that eventually).
http://blog.objectmentor.com/articles/2008/02/04/unit-testing-c-and-c-with-ruby-and-rspec

It should work pretty well right now for C. There are some issues still with
C++.

Dean Wampler
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