The DejaGnu Testing Framework

for DejaGnu Version 1.3

Jan 1996

• What is DejaGnu?
• What is new in this release ?
  • Running existing tests
  • What does a DejaGnu test look like?
  • Design goals
  • A POSIX conforming test framework
  • Future directions
  • Tcl and Expect
• Using runtest
• Setting runtest defaults
  • Config Variables
  • Master Config File
  • Local Config File
  • Personal Config File
• The DejaGnu Implementation
  • Conventions for using tool names
  • Initialization module
  • DejaGnu procedures
    • Core Internal Procedures
    • Remote Communication Procedures
    • Utility Procedures
    • Cross target procedure
    • Debugging Procedures
  • Target dependent procedures
  • Remote targets supported
  • The files DejaGnu reads
  • The files DejaGnu writes
    • Summary log
    • Detailed log
    • Logging expect internal actions
• How To Write a Test Case
  • Writing a test case
  • Debugging a test case
  • Adding a test case to a test suite
  • Hints on writing a test case
  • Special variables used by test cases
• New Tools, Targets, or Hosts
  • Writing tests for a new tool
  • Adding a target
  • Porting to a new host
• Installing DejaGnu
  • Configuring the DejaGnu test driver
  • Installing DejaGnu
• Index

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