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    Generate test cases

    Hi,

    I think the title says most of it, but just in case: I've been searching through internet, and different sites, but I could not find what I was looking for, so I was hoping, someone could help me out here:
    I have a simple C++ function (written in devcpp if this information is relevant), and I would like some test cases to be automatically generated. So I'm looking for a tool that could make this for me (I could easily write the test cases myself, since the code is just a few dozen lines long, but that's not what I'm asked for), works under windows, and preferably easy to use.

    Thanks in advance for any help.

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    Re: Generate test cases

    Are your test-cases designed to pass only valid values to the function or you want to test abuse of the function interface - e.g. passing pointers to wrong objects or numbers out of the required range ?

    If you don't have defined pre-conditions on the input, and post conditions on the output - then auto-generation of test cases is a very difficult (unfeasible ?) problem.

    Coding a function is like writing a contract between you - the function author and any programmer that will use this function.
    C++ supplies some macro's for upholding contracts. See this link on Design By Contract, for example.
    If you properly define the contract's pre conditions & post conditions, then you can detect contract breaches at compile time or at run-time.
    Other languages, such as Java have tools that can auto-generate tests from the Functional Contracts, but I don't know of any tool that does that for C++.

    Regards,
    Zachm

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    Re: Generate test cases

    Quote Originally Posted by Zachm View Post
    Are your test-cases designed to pass only valid values to the function or you want to test abuse of the function interface - e.g. passing pointers to wrong objects or numbers out of the required range ?
    The only requirement I expect test cases to be fulfilling, that they should be integers, because the function covers the whole reange of that data type.

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    Re: Generate test cases

    You might find this article of interest
    http://alexott.net/en/cpp/CppTestingIntro.html
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