Re: [Simh] Unit/functional testing simulators

2014-12-03 Thread J. David Bryan
On Wednesday, December 3, 2014 at 18:19, Seth Morabito wrote: > I meant unit tests in the Kent Beck sense of unit testing, i.e. code > that is automatically run at or shortly after compile time to verify > correctness of "units" (likely C functions, in this case). I understand now, thanks. > T

Re: [Simh] Unit/functional testing simulators

2014-12-03 Thread Mark Pizzolato - Info Comm
On Tuesday, December 02, 2014 at 8:38 PM, Phil Budne wrote: > Mark Pizzolato wrote: > > ... Running these needs some sort of scripting paradigm to load, start and > examine the results of such tests. > > Over a decade ago I wrote a Tcl "expect" script to install ITS on a SIMH > simulated KS-10 fro

Re: [Simh] Unit/functional testing simulators

2014-12-03 Thread Seth Morabito
* On Wed, Dec 03, 2014 at 02:27:33AM -0500, J. David Bryan wrote: > On Tuesday, December 2, 2014 at 19:54, Seth Morabito wrote: > > > SIMH is entirely without test suites, so of course I've had to forge > > on ahead without that safety net. > > I'm not sure I understand your comment. Do you m

Re: [Simh] Unit/functional testing simulators

2014-12-03 Thread Richard
In article <201412030438.sb34cpyk078...@ultimate.com>, Phil Budne writes: > Mark Pizzolato wrote: > > ... Running these needs some sort of scripting paradigm to load, start > and examine the results of such tests. > > Over a decade ago I wrote a Tcl "expect" script to install ITS on a > SIM

Re: [Simh] Unit/functional testing simulators

2014-12-03 Thread Richard
In article <03006e3fc39b5a48ab9dbccc101090a8234493f...@redroof2.alohasunset.com>, Mark Pizzolato - Info Comm writes: > Well, if you're trying to 'test' a particular instruction implementation. > You can drive that test with SCP commands which: > 1) load some memory with the instruction to

Re: [Simh] Unit/functional testing simulators

2014-12-03 Thread Richard
In article <20141203015411.ga10...@loomcom.com>, Seth Morabito writes: > I'd love to see testing come to SIMH. It's never too late! Me too. I have lots of experience retrofitting unit tests onto existing code, so I can help out here. I am very happy to see that simh is now on github! Thi