Subj : Re: tools to build design of application
To   : Phlip
From : Matthias Kaeppler
Date : Sat Jul 30 2005 11:42 am

Hi Philip,

I have read your article as well as the CppUnit Cookbook and I have a 
question:

All the tests desribed in the examples only seem to make sense for 
programs/operations of functional nature (functional meaning taking 
input and delivering output).

This is however the least common case for programs implemented in 
procedural or OO languages. Here, most functions are simply of 
procedural nature in that they are just executing a bunch of statements. 
Even more, returning error codes which could be checked is also less 
common when you have exceptions.

So my question would be: How would I write tests for procedures which 
return nothing (and which for example make like 95% of the program I'm 
currently developing)? Can such methods be tested at all with such a 
test framework and how would these tests look like?

Regards,
Matthias

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