Re: [Simh] Unit/functional testing simulators

2014-12-03 Thread Richard
In article 03006e3fc39b5a48ab9dbccc101090a8234493f...@redroof2.alohasunset.com, Mark Pizzolato - Info Comm m...@infocomm.com 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

Re: [Simh] Unit/functional testing simulators

2014-12-03 Thread Richard
In article 201412030438.sb34cpyk078...@ultimate.com, Phil Budne p...@ultimate.com 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

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 jdbr...@acm.org 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.

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 from

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. There