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Re: EGCS-970929 and GNAT-3.10p?
- To: Toon Moene <toon at moene dot indiv dot nluug dot nl>
- Subject: Re: EGCS-970929 and GNAT-3.10p?
- From: Joel Sherrill <joel at OARcorp dot com>
- Date: Thu, 23 Oct 1997 14:48:43 -0500 (CDT)
- cc: egcs at cygnus dot com
On Thu, 23 Oct 1997, Toon Moene wrote:
>
> Note that this kind of regression testing is out of reach
> of informal fiddling. For one thing, the great majority of
> the code in the critical regression suite is proprietary,
> for example it includes large chuncks of the DEC test suite,
> as well as a lot of customer code, that the customer has
> been willing to entrust to us only on the basis that we will
> carefully protect it. It is also the case that the
> configuration control that is needed requires very strong
> control and management.
>
> Straight from the horse's mouth ...
>
> Of course I needed the regression tests for what I wanted (see above).
Yes but the ACVC is the "official" testing suite used when a validation
certificate is issued. It is freely available even if the setup and test
fixtures are not.
There is a lot of freely available Ada code to base test suite on.
--joel