Re: [Csnd-dev] Unit Testing

I made a similar PR for a built-in approach
https://github.com/csound/csound/pull/1663

On Mon, 19 Feb 2024 at 21:48, Steven Yi <[email protected]> wrote:

> Hi All,
>
> While doing the pass-by-ref work, I experimented with writing some
> assert UDOs. I found this worked out well, and suggest we spend a
> little time to create a unit-testing .orc library to support our
> unit-testing needs for orc code. Here are two example UDOs I put
> together:
>
> opcode assert(condition:b, message:S):void
>     if(!condition) then
>         prints(message)
>         exitnow(-1)
>     endif
> endop
>
> opcode assertEquals(ival, iexpected):void
>     if(ival != iexpected) then
>         prints("Error: ival was %g, expected %g\n", ival, iexpected)
>         exitnow(-1)
>     endif
> endop
>
> I suspect this would be good not-only as part of our tests but more
> broadly for Csound users developing their own code. We could look at
> having a separate repo for this and add it as a git submodule, or
> perhaps some other approach. (Ideas welcome here.)
>
> Cheers!
> Steven
>