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Subject: Re: Unit testing IOCs and databases
From: Simon Rose via Tech-talk <tech-talk at aps.anl.gov>
To: Stainer Tom <Tom.Stainer at sckcen.be>, "tech-talk at aps.anl.gov" <tech-talk at aps.anl.gov>
Date: Tue, 7 Sep 2021 11:26:59 +0000

Hi Tom -

 

During the last EPICS code-a-thon, I added a few tests, and I did exactly what you said. Re-run the test, and then go back and update the number.

 

Cheers,

 

Simon

 

From: Tech-talk <tech-talk-bounces at aps.anl.gov> on behalf of Stainer Tom via Tech-talk <tech-talk at aps.anl.gov>
Reply-To: Stainer Tom <Tom.Stainer at sckcen.be>
Date: Tuesday, 7 September 2021 at 13:19
To: "tech-talk at aps.anl.gov" <tech-talk at aps.anl.gov>
Subject: RE: Unit testing IOCs and databases

 

Hi Ralph,

 

Thanks for the link, this is useful! I will take a look how to use this for other testing libraries.

 

With regard to base tests, I have indeed tried writing unit tests with the epicsUnitTest.h but one quirk I could not understand is why I have to count up all the asserts and add that number to the testPlan as an argument.

Do people run a script to count them or do you simply run it once to fail and then use that number?

It wasn’t a big issue, it is just a bit more overhead compared to other testing libraries.

 

I was also interested in using other output formats for reporting. I know epics-base can write junit files but I wanted something a bit finer grained, which I can get with other libraries.

 

Kind regards,

Tom

 

 

From: Tech-talk <tech-talk-bounces at aps.anl.gov> On Behalf Of Ralph Lange via Tech-talk
Sent: Tuesday, September 7, 2021 12:44 PM
To: EPICS Tech Talk <tech-talk at aps.anl.gov>
Subject: Re: Unit testing IOCs and databases

 

On Tue, 7 Sept 2021 at 11:13, Stainer Tom via Tech-talk <tech-talk at aps.anl.gov> wrote:

- Has anyone tried using other libraries, such as google test, Catch2, doctest,… to do unit testing in EPICS? If so, how can I set this up with the EPICS build system?

 

 

Base also has its own testing framework (standard C). The tests inside Base are probably the best example for that.

 

Cheers,
~Ralph 

 

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