ITP: greg
I'm packaging greg,
http://www.gnu.org/software/greg/
(naturally GPL)
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The Greg testing framework
Greg is a framework for testing other programs and libraries. Its
purpose is to provide a single front end for all tests and to be a
small, simple framework for writing tests. Greg leverages off the
Guile language to provide all the power (and more) of other test
frameworks with greater simplicity and ease of use.
The simplicity of the Greg framework makes it easy to write tests for
any program, but it was specifically written for use with
GNUstep-Guile to permit direct testing of the GNUstep libraries
without the necessity to run a separate driver program.
The core functionality of Greg is a Guile module which can be loaded
into any software with an embedded Guile interpreter. Any program
which uses Guile as it's scripting language can therefore use Greg to
test itself directly!
For testing external programs, Greg provides a compiled module that
may be dynamically linked into Guile to permit you to run an
application as a child process on a pseudo-terminal. In conjunction
with the standard Guile `expect' module, this lets you test external
programs.
Also provided is greg - a Guile script to invoke the Greg test
framework in much the same way that runtest is used in DejaGNU.
All tests have the same output format (enforced by the greg-testcase
procedure). Greg's output is designed to be both readable and readily
parsed by other software, so that it can be used as input to
customised testing processes.
Greg provides most of the functionality of DejaGNU but is rather
simpler. It omits specific support for cross-platform/remote testing
since this is really rather trivial to add where required and tends to
vary from site to site so much that an attempt at a generic solution
is pretty pointless. What Greg does do, is provide hooks to let you
easily introduce site specific code for handling those sorts of
situations.
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