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libtap - Testing library for C, implementing the Test Anything Protocol.

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29 pointsColinWright6 comments

This looks great, thanks for submitting! I've recently been working on a little C project and wondering how to test it. I'd been running little ad-hoc tests in the main() of each of my .c's, but that was getting unwieldy.

Be sure not to skip the link[1] at the top of the github page! It shows how to use the library. I clicked the "Read More" but not the link, and then was confused as to how to use this.

[1] http://jc.ngo.org.uk/trac-bin/trac.cgi/wiki/LibTap

I've been using another C TAP library for a project for a few months now, but I think I'll switch to this since it has fewer dependencies.

There's already a bazillion C unit testing libraries, how is this any different?

  > There's already a bazillion C unit testing libraries, ...

Do you know of any comprehensive list? I'd love to see a comparison.

  > ... how is this any different?

In this case, it's short, clean, and written by someone I know and whose code I trust.

Here's a list I found a couple weeks ago:

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/65820/unit-testing-c-code

Cool - thanks.

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