Re: Tests for the root framework

Hi Daniele,

On Thu, 2006-03-02 at 02:09 +0100, Daniele Nicolodi wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 02, 2006 at 01:28:34AM +0100, Christian Holm Christensen wrote:
> > Have you considered using some of the testing frameworks out there? Say
> > DejaGNU, cunit, cxxunit, and what not? For a big project like ROOT,
> > it's probably not a bad idea to use some sort of time-tested system.
>
> what i like from the python world is also what are called "doctests".
> Those are snipets of code mixed within documentation of what a
> class/module is supposed to do. A special python module is used then to
> run the cide into the documetation and check for the correct output. It
> is a very good way to document how class/modules are supposed to be used
> and keep such documentation syncked with the implementation. I don't
> know if such tools exist also for the c++ world.

Doxygen may have similar functionality.

Yours,

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