EGCS-970929 and GNAT-3.10p?

Joel Sherrill joel@OARcorp.com
Thu Oct 23 12:49:00 GMT 1997


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




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