On Sat, 14 Oct 2006, Bruno Carnazzi wrote:
> Hi misc,
>
> I'm currently learning C. In many languages, you hear lots of stuff
> likes 'unit testing', 'refactoring', 'agile programming' and
> others... It seems that these techniques are not very present in C
These techniques (minus the hype factor) are feasable in any language.
> programming (whereas check framework is in packages, it seems too
> complex) Looking quickly at the OpenBSD's CVS, I found no unit test. I
> won't debate on the merit or cost of this approach, and I'm not really
> fond of it (add not-so-usefull complexity) but I'm just curious to
> know why OpenBSD developpers choose to not use this technique for
> userland tools (for kernel, it's obvious :).
You did not look hard enough. We have a lot of tests in src/regress.
Both to test userland stuff as well as system calls.
-Otto
