The DejaGnu Testing Framework

for DejaGnu Version 1.1

Nov 1993

• What is DejaGnu?
  • 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
  • Configuration dependent values
  • Defaults for runtest options
• The DejaGnu Implementation
  • Conventions for using tool names
  • Initialization module
  • DejaGnu procedures
  • Library 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
• Expect: Programmed Dialogue
  • Introduction
  • Usage
  • Commands
  • Pretty-Printing
  • Examples
  • Caveats
  • Bugs
  • Expect Hints
  • Expect Bibliography
  • Acknowledgements
• Tcl Overview
  • Introduction
  • Tcl Interpreters
  • Tcl Data Types
  • Basic Command Syntax
    • Comments
    • Grouping arguments with double-quotes
    • Grouping arguments with braces
    • Command substitution with brackets
    • Variable substitution with $
    • Separating commands with semicolons
    • Backslash substitution
    • Command summary
  • Expressions
  • Lists
  • Regular expressions
  • Command results
  • Procedures
  • Variables: scalars and arrays
  • Built-in commands
  • Built-in variables
  • Acknowledgements
• Installing DejaGnu
  • Configuring the DejaGnu test driver
  • Installing DejaGnu
• Index