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A C testing library in 1 file. No dependencies, no dynamic allocation. ISC licensed.

8 mentions on Hacker News by 6 people: 2 stories, 6 comments · first 2012-03-17 · latest 2017-08-29

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  1. Still a good trick today. https://github.com/silentbicycle/greatest just added a feature of shuffling test executions into random order, after I suggested the general idea in a Twitter convo. (I think it uses LCGs instead of an LFSR.)
    comment by abecedarius · 2017-08-29 · in FizzleFade
  2. …/spin.atomicobject.com/2013/07/31/greatest-c-testing-e... (his header-only unit testing library is at https://github.com/silentbicycle/greatest )
  3. …unit testing framework for C. I evaluated these two alternatives: https://github.com/mity/cutest https://github.com/silentbicycle/greatest They're about 1/5th the size of the Cheat framework. I ended up using "greatest" because it doesn't…
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    Greatest: C unit testing library in one file
    story by luu · 2014-01-07 · 45 comments
  5. …test software is developing. Look at http://throwtheswitch.org/ and my (more minimal) "greatest": http://github.com/silentbicycle/greatest
    comment by silentbicycle · 2013-12-06 · in How can C Programs be so Reliable? (2008)
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    Greatest: a C unit testing library in 1 file
    story by ColinWright · 2013-03-02 · 0 comments
  7. Here's a one-file, ISC-licensed test framework I wrote for ANSI C: "greatest" ( https://github.com/silentbicycle/greatest ). It doesn't depend on any dynamic allocation, or anything beyond C89, and compiles with zero warnings under -Wall…
    comment by silentbicycle · 2012-06-11 · in What’s to love about C?
  8. …), CMock ( http://throwtheswitch.org/white-papers/cmock-intro.html ), and greatest ( https://github.com/silentbicycle/greatest ). (disclosure: I'm involved with all three.)
    comment by silentbicycle · 2012-03-17 · in The C Conference