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Re: dejagnu
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jonathan Kamens)
Sat Oct 7 17:54:00 1995
To: kerberos@MIT.EDU
Date: 7 Oct 1995 20:21:38 GMT
From: jik@jik.datasrv.co.il (Jonathan Kamens)
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In article <013.02469626.VTTW26B@prodigy.com>, VTTW26B@prodigy.com (MS CHRISTIANE TOENNE) writes:
|> This may be a stupid question, but what does "dejagnu" stand for?
It's a pun on the phrase "deja vu", i.e., on the feeling of having
experienced something before. It's the GNU software testing framework.
Quoting from the README file in the DejaGnu 1.2 distribution:
> DejaGnu is a framework for testing other programs. Its purpose is to
>provide a single front end for all tests. Beyond this, DejaGnu offers
>several advantages for testing:
>
> - The flexibility and consistency of the DejaGnu framework
> make it easy to write tests for any program.
>
> - DejaGnu provides a layer of abstraction which makes all
> tests (if correctly written) portable to any host or target
> where a program must be tested. For instance, a test for
> GDB can run (from any Unix based host) on any target
> architecture supported by DejaGnu. Currently DejaGnu runs
> tests on several single board computers, whose operating
> software ranges from just a boot monitor to a full-fledged,
> Unix-like realtime OS.
>
> - DejaGnu is written in expect, which in turn uses Tcl
> (Tool command language). The framework comprises two parts:
> the testing framework and the testsuites themselves. Tests
> are usually written in expect using Tcl.
It's available for anonymous FTP from prep.ai.mit.edu (in /pub/gnu) and
ftp.cygnus.com (in /pub/dejagnu), I believe.
