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January 2003 Meeting

Topic:

Unit Testing

Speaker:

Asim Jalis

When:

Wednesday, January 8th, 2003
Presentation @ 7:00pm

Where:

Avaya Corporation
6464 185th Avenue Northeast
Redmond, Washington 98052
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Description:

The talk will focus on C/C++ unit testing and test-driven development using the CuTest library. CuTest is simple, portable, and follows the JUnit look and feel in its output and API. The topics covered will include:

  • Introduction to Test Driven Development (TDD)
  • Demo of using TDD to write C/C++ code
  • Comparison of CuTest with other C/C++ unit testing frameworks
  • Some testing ideas and techniques
  • How to test exhaustively using tables
  • How to leverage traditional assert()'s with unit tests
  • How to unit test system calls and GUI code
  • Open discussion on testing ideas and problems

About the Speaker:

Asim Jalis is a software engineer at Hewlett-Packard Company. He is currently working on web services management software, which is primarily in C# and also uses C/C++, Java and Perl.   He is deeply interested in test driven development and ways of making this easier and more effective. He is the author of CuTest a unit testing framework for C, and Test::Extreme a unit testing framework for Perl.

 
 
 

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