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December 3rd 2011, Release 880

• MinGW support on windows machines.
TestApe can now be used with MinGW GCC on windows. TestApe will run on a wide variety of platforms, enabling the developer to write the test and use them to develop and debug the new code on the local windows environment - using gcc for compile validation and visual studio for debugging. After code checkin, the same test can be part of a build process on a linux based compile farm
• Validation of floating point values
Validations with a test defined level of precision and parameterized tests with floating point variations have been added to the test system.
• Mocking of functions receiving or returning floating point values.
The mocking system now handles functions that either accepts or returns floating point values - that includes automatic generation of default mocks for unresolved externals, also if these are using floating points as well as mocking of clib functions with arithmetic data types.
• Other features
  • New macro PARAMETER_RANGE_FP accepts floating point ranges and a delta value.
  • Tests can be declared and executed with normal c style arguments.
  • Arguments can be passed from commandline to testmain with --args switch.
  • Support new versions of cl/link in Microsoft Visual Studio C++ 2010.
• Fixed bugs
  • Bugfix: ALLOW, EXPECT and SIMULATE will now work with functions defined with macro's.
  • Bugfix: ALLOW_SIMULATE is now fixed.
  • Bugfix: Version checking.

• Macro definition for ALLOW_SIMULATE, EXPECT_SIMULATE, ALLOW_VALIDATE and EXPECT_SIMULATE will now evaluate value parameter twice. This might cause problems with tests written for release 791, if this parameter is a function call with side effects.
• Macro definition for ALLOW, EXPECT, and SIMULATE will now macro expand function argument. This may cause problems with tests written for release 791 that relies on this beeing a macro string

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April 2nd 2010, Release 791

• Full mock support for function and library calls.
In this release all functions can be mocked. That includes functions that are internal to the unit or functions called in C library. Every test can supply its own individual mock. This will be in scope during that test only. Test suites can supply mocks that will remain in scope for the entire testsuite. The mock can validate the parameters and/or call the function it mocks.
• Automatic default mocks for unresolved externals.
Mocking functions explicitly is possibility. As default the instrumenter will supply default mocks for all unresolved externals. Units with extensive use of external interfaces can have a test running immediately - no need to write dummy stub functions.
• New macros ALLOW, ALLOW_SIMULATE and ALLOW_VALIDATE implemented.
These new macros allows you to pass control to a mock function. The scope of these macros defines when a mock is called and what happens after. When a mocked function is called, the framework can either return a specific value to the unit each time or invoke the supplied mock. The mock can choose to give back control to the mocked function. This is powerful as generic validation of parameters to functions - for example the format string and parameters of printf.
• Other features
  • Option to limit amount of tests from commandline. e.g. --> testexe 5-7 will execute testcase 5,6 and 7. testexe e1 will execute first testcase with an error.
  • Examples from documentation added to installation.
  • Improved debug support with testape_error_handler.
  • All functions (also C library functions used by the framework) can now be mocked.
  • Instrumenter will notify when a new release becomes available.
  • Mocked function and its current replacement shown in log.
  • New instrumenter options -o and -v to help troubleshooting.
  • Testcode can be written to produce consistent results when the amount of object files in the unit are changed. If object files are removed, default mocks are automatically supplied. If object files are added, the new functions are automatically mocked in existing tests.
• Fixed bugs
  • Bugfix: gcc -m32 is now passed correctly.
  • Bugfix: Support new versions of cl/link in Microsoft Visual Studio C++ 2008.
  • Bugfix: Support new versions of gcc in CygWin and Linux.
  • Bugfix: Mock return values could in rare cases become corrupted.
  • Bugfix: Added error message when instrumenter could not create temporary files.
  • Bugfix: Instrumenter allows gcc with -ltestape, so testape.a will be loaded from lib path.
  • Bugfix: testape_cache .ini style file handling improved.
  • Bugfix: Mocked static functions will break instrumentation.

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July 24th. 2008, Release 556

• PARAMETER_xxxx replaces EXECUTE_ADD_xxxx macros.
• Test and error id's selectable in output.
• Test executable commandline option -h, -idt, -ide and -q added.
• Documentation updated. Getting started section added.
• Bugfix: Framework returned wrong exit codes
• testmain is now common entry point for the framework.
• Bugfix: SIMULATE_VALUE always returns zero.
• EXECUTE has been rewritten in order to make it easier to debug test executables.
• EXECUTE no longer return number of errors.
• Bugfix: Failed validations outside the scope of a test, crashes.
• Bugfix: memory leak.
• Dependency between framework and libstdc++ has been removed.

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June 2008, release 433

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September 2007, release 408

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October 2006, release 298