[TangerineSDR] Unit testing

[Engelke, Bill]

Rob - OK, I just wanted to see if you had a preference.  I'm looking at the cunit package for C. I will have a complete test suite that covers as much as possible (which means, as you mention, using a couple of different ones). 

Thanks & have a great Thanksgiving   - 73- Bill

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From: TangerineSDR <tangerinesdr-bounces at lists.tapr.org> On Behalf Of Rob Wiesler via TangerineSDR
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Subject: Re: [TangerineSDR] Unit testing

On Mon, Nov 25, 2019 at 20:00:38 +0000, Engelke, Bill wrote:
> Rob - what would you think would be the best Unit Testing package for 
> developing the automated unit tests for the SBC portion of the 
> TangerineSDR?  -73- Bill

I don't really have much of an opinion.  Unit testing frameworks all basically do the same thing, just for code written in different languages and with differently-named functions.

I suspect that we'll end up wanting at least two unit testing frameworks (at least one for C and/or C++, and one for Python for the web application (and possibly higher-level tests of system functionality)).
Python ships with one (pyunit), so nearly everyone uses that one (and we should too).  C and C++ have diverse unit testing ecologies, which makes picking one a little obnoxious.  Quite honestly, I don't usually see much of a point in using a framework for unit-testing C code - I just write tests as separate programs in a separate source directory, and then hook autopkgtest up to them (see [0]).

[0] https://people.debian.org/~mpitt/autopkgtest/README.package-tests.html

I know I sound like I only know the one song, but the only advice I can give is to make sure whatever unit testing frameworks you pick are packaged in Debian (and Ubuntu).

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