6 Testing Procedure For Logger

The Logger component of SAM is not written in Python, but in C. Therefore it is not possible to use PyUnit in order to test it. A number of unit testing frameworks for C were considered and one called Check was chosen due to it's nice neat syntax and ability to run tests under different address spaces in order to produce a test report even when the code crashes. For information on check see http://check.sourceforge.net/.

Unfortunately however, due to problems installing Check, it could not be used for this project. Instead, a small testing framework will be written by the person writing the test cases for Logger. This framework will be kept in CVS under src/test/sam/Mtest/ in the files Mtest.c and Mtest.h.

The framework will be written in the C programming language and will provide functions for

• Displaying all test output to the screen or to standard output
• Keeping track of how many tests have been run in the test suite
• Keeping track of how many of these have failed
• Keeping track of how many of these have passed

Other than this difference, Testing for SAM's Logger module will follow the normal procedures in this document for SAM.