11.5. Adding a Test Suite
Automake has very flexible support for automated test suites within a project distribution, which are discussed more fully in The Automake Manual. I have added a simple shell script–based testing facility to Sic using this support—this kind of testing mechanism is perfectly adequate for command-line projects. The tests themselves just feed prescribed input to the uninstalled sic interpreter and compare the actual output with what is expected.
Here is one of the test scripts:
## -*- sh -*- ## incomplete.test — Test incomplete command handling # Common definitions if test -z "$srcdir"; then srcdir=echo "$0" | sed s,[^/]*$,,' test "$srcdir" = "$0" && srcdir=. test -z "$srcdir" && srcdir=. test "${VERBOSE+set}" != set ...Get GNU Autoconf, Automake, and Libtool now with the O’Reilly learning platform.
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