Re: test suites

Hello Joe,

I put my tests in a haskell script that spawned gpsim and ran all the
tests. It was easier to manage in Haskell as I was able to break up
the tests into modules, based on functionality.

Good luck,
Another Joe


On Tue, Aug 16, 2011 at 10:00 PM, Joe Pfeiffer
<[email protected]> wrote:
> I'm curious as to what strategies people use to create test suites for
> their projects....
>
> I'm working on Yet Another Shop Toaster Oven (in addition to the
> standard computer-controlled solder reflow temperature profile, I want
> to be able to do things like powder-coat small parts in mine), so I've
> got more devices to deal with than most past projects: =A0the
> thermocouple, the zero-crossing detector, the lcd, the timer, the
> keypad....
>
> I'd like to get my code working in bite-size chunks: =A0first get a test
> pattern up on an lcd, then interface the keypad..... =A0the thing is,
> when I discover a bug in a later test (say I discover something was
> wrong with my lcd driver when I'm working on the keypad), I want to
> make sure my bugfix gets propagated back properly. =A0OK, at some level
> the right answer is "make sure I do it", but I've been programming
> long enough to have nearly infinite confidence in my ability to make
> stupid mistakes.
>
> I started to work on a scheme to break up the code in to various
> include files for bit settings, constants, init code, driver code...
> and quickly realized that I was creating something that was massively
> unwieldy, and also (since I basically had to set things like the
> tristate registers with bit-by-but sets and clears) really
> inefficient.
>
> So now we come back to my question: =A0what do you guys do? =A0Lots of
> include files? =A0Just one big chunk of source code (OK, it sort of
> can't be longer than 2000 lines so it isn't that big)? =A0Some sort of
> m4-hell?
>
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