• Manual

  • Introduction to Intest - What Intest is, and a simple example of what it can do.

  • Intest at the Command Line - Intest is controlled with a flexible range of command-line instructions.

  • The Universe of Cases - How to specify what test cases exist for a project.

  • Writing Intest Recipes - A guide to writing in Delia, Intest's recipe language.

  • Reference Card - The current help information as it would be printed at the command line.

• Preliminaries

  • How This Program Works - An overview of how Intest works, with links to all of its important functions.

• Chapter 1: Top Level

  Starting up, and parsing the user's requirements.

  • Basics - Some fundamental definitions.

  • Main - The top level, which decides what is to be done and then carries this plan out.

  • Command Line Arguments - To parse the command line arguments with which intest was called, and to handle any errors it needs to issue.

• Chapter 2: Test Cases and Instructions

  Surveying the universe of test cases, and deciding what to do with them.

  • Recipe Files - To parse recipe files and/or using commands typed at the command line.

  • Global Variables - To manage a set of text variables held in common among all test cases.

  • Actions - To parse and carry out requests to do something.

  • The Historian - To preserve a recent command history on disc.

  • The Extractor - To extract the text of a test case from its file on disc.

• Chapter 3: Performing Tests

  Scheduling tests across multiple threads, and then carrying them out.

  • The Scheduler - To queue and then distribute the load of tests.

  • The Hasher - To optimise by storing MD5 hashes of known-to-be-correct output.

  • The Differ - To provide text matching in the style of the Unix tool diff.

  • The Reporter - To produce reports for use in the Inform user interface app.

  • Skeins - To build and compare skein threads.

• Chapter 4: Recipes

  Compiling a textual description of how to carry out a test, and also doing so.

  • The Delia Compiler - To compile a recipe for how to perform a test.

  • The Tester - To run a compiled recipe on a single test case.

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This program also incorporates the following web(s) as module(s):

• arch - Definitions of Inter and final VM architectures.

• inweb/foundation - A library of utility functions for command-line tools.