Re: Ada-Python inter-language testing

[Stephen Leake <stephen_leake@acm.org>]

Matteo Bertini <matteob@naufraghi.net> writes:

> I'm doing some coding for an Ada-Python bridge to decouple test-code
> from ada-code.
> 
> The idea is:
> 
> (A) Have some Ada code to test.

Yes, I have lots of that :).

> (B) Write down an Ada package exporting procedures and functions in
> a C compatible way.

Yuck. No named aggregates, no tagged types!

> (C) Write a Pyrex[1] (Python[2] like language for making C modules)
> bridge to access Ada exported procedures and functions.

If you say so. 
 
> (D) Write unit-testing in Python, being free to add/remove/change
> test-cases without recompiling and with a lot of introspection
> features.

And free to spend lots of time chasing bugs in the test framework.

If Ada is a good language for writing code, why not write (test) code
in Ada?

The "introspection" you speak of will be of no benefit; it can't see
the Ada code.

Just use AUnit. 

> Considering that the point (B) is error prone and time consuming,

Exactly.

> could ever someone in the real world need something like this?

Not from me.

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