SpecRunner

• The name

Our research and experience from software development, unit-testing and war-stories shows that much trouble could have been avoided if the specifications had been written in a formal language that could not be interpreted in as many ways as standard english.

We do think that we can reach high quality goals with ordinary unit-tests written in C. Thus we strongly suggest that the low-level specification of software libraries should be written as unit-tests.

Specrunner is the software you need to execute all these specification unit-tests automatically.

• Just too many unit-tests?

As more companies introduce unit-tests, they run into the problem of having too many unit-tests to fit on the embedded system. If you have good code quality you often end up with more lines of test-code than lines of target code. Our experience is that people are forced to remove tests and that this in turn leads to unstable and complex errors that are hard to catch. Thus the investment in writing unit-tests have partly been lost and large scale low-level regressions tests are not possible.

SpecRunner is the software that makes your return of investment in unit-testing even better and pushes that extra quality back into your product.