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While creating ROSA, we not only develop and adapt different packages for our distribution, but also design new tools for other developers.

One of such tools is [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/API_Sanity_Checker API Sanity Checker], which is aimed to automatically generate tests for C++/C libraries.

For its work, the tool requires only header files with declarations of library functions (and all necessary data types).  Using this information, <tt>API Sanity Checker</tt> generates tests that calls every function from the library with proper arguments. Usually these automatically generated tests are used as a template for developing more complex sets (with enumeration of different values of parameters, their combinations, etc).

The tool is absolutely free (the source code can be found [https://github.com/lvc/api-sanity-checker/ here]) and can be used by everybody. For example, not so far <tt>API Sanity Checker</tt> has been [https://cta-redmine.irap.omp.eu/issues/579 integrated] in the development cycle of the [http://gammalib.sourceforge.net/ GammaLib] library. As a result of the tool's work, 11 errors were found and fixed in that library (https://cta-jenkins.irap.omp.eu/job/gammalib-sanity/5/changes, https://cta-jenkins.irap.omp.eu/job/gammalib-sanity/6/changes).

We recommend all upstream developers of different C/C++ libraries to follow this successful example. The resources to create test set is minimal, but number of errors found can be really great.

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{{wl-publish: 2013-02-21 17:23:02 +0400 | Petr.fomichev }}