Nest Labs Unit Test

Introduction

Nest Labs Unit Test (nlunit-test) is designed to provide a simple, portable unit test suite framework.

It should be capable of running on just about any system, no matter how constrained and depends only on the C Standard Library.

It is recognized and acknowledged that not every piece of code or subsystem, library, thread or process can be easily unit tested. However, unit tests are a “Good Thing™” and will give you the confidence to make changes and prove to both yourself and other colleagues that you have things right, in so far as your unit tests cover right.

Unit tests will be combined with other methods of verification to fully cover the various test requirements in the system. The purpose of the unit test is to isolate your module’s methods and ensure that they have the proper output, affect state properly, and handle errors appropriately. This ensures each of the building blocks of the system functions correctly. These tests can also be used for regression testing so that any code changes that affect a module’s output will be automatically flagged.

Interact

There are numerous avenues for nlunit-test support:

• Bugs and feature requests — submit to the Issue Tracker
• Google Groups — discussion and announcements
  • nlunit-test-announce — release notes and new updates on nlunit-test
  • nlunit-test-users — discuss use of and enhancements to nlunit-test

Versioning

nlunit-test follows the Semantic Versioning guidelines for release cycle transparency and to maintain backwards compatibility.

License

nlunit-test is released under the Apache License, Version 2.0 license. See the LICENSE file for more information.