test infrastructure ideas appreciated ... -- automatically generated unit tests

[Zolnai Tamás]

2015-06-15 21:34 GMT+02:00 Michael Meeks <michael.meeks at collabora.com>:
> Hi Tamas,
>
> On Mon, 2015-06-15 at 15:51 +0200, Zolnai Tamás wrote:
>> I've got an idea too: automatically generated unit tests.
>
>         Sounds interesting :-) are there some existing examples of clang
> plugins that do this - or some papers / existing code that does this ? I
> imagine we would want annotations in the code to help the unit-tester,
> and also (I guess) support methods that create working helpful objects
> to pass into constructors like documents, shells, filters etc. ;-)
>
>         Added to the list for discussion; it'd be great to hear from you in the
> ESC call on Thursday if you can make it on this topic. Then again - it's
> less than clear to me (given the bulk of suggestions) how we'll
> prioritize them to build a recommendation for a tender to do this =)

Hi Michael,

I didn't find any example code in this topic. It was just a sudden
idea deducted from the general rule: If you are bored doing things
manually do it automatically. :)
I'm not sure what clang plugins capable of. There are more experienced
guys in this territory.

Best Regards,
Tamás