In This July Digital Issue:

Table of Contents

• Unit Testing in C: Tools and Conventions
  By James W. Grenning
A unit test harness is a software package that allows a programmer to express how production code should behave. This article presents two lightweight testing frameworks make it easy to unit test C code.


• 13 Linux Debuggers for C++ Reviewed
  By Howard Rubin
Most time in debuggers is spent doing the same few things: setting breakpoints, stepping through code, looking at variables. Which products make those features supremely accessible and useful? We compare 13 debuggers and find out.

FROM THE VAULT
• Working with Microsoft PEX Framework
  By Joydip Kanjilal
The PEX Framework is a Visual Studio add-in for automated white-box testing of .NET applications. Developed by Microsoft Research, PEX is capable of performing application code analysis, searching for boundary conditions, generating test cases, searching for assertion failures, and ultimately reducing costs.


• MAILBAG
  By you
Readers remark on orthodoxy vs. pragmatism.


• NEWS BRIEFS
  By Adrian Bridgwater
Recent news on tools, platforms, frameworks, and the state of the software development world.


• LINKS
  Snapshots of the most interesting items on drdobbs.com including semantics and the hurdles to mobile app development.

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