check mit Homebrew installieren

Projektlinks

• Homepage
• Repository

Befehle und Aliase

• checkmk

Projektgeschichte

Check's NEWS file records an initial public 0.5.0 release before the 0.6.0 release in June 2001. Its documentation explains the name as a reference to the Autoconf/Automake `make check` testing idiom, while noting that those build tools are not required.

Adoptionsgeschichte

The project long predates its 2015 GitHub mirror/repository creation. Its README and website document Autotools and CMake builds, pkg-config-style packaging, Windows support through Cygwin/MinGW/MSVC, and availability across many Unix-like package repositories.

Wie es verwendet wird

Developers link against Check, define suites and test cases in C, and run tests through `make check`, CTest, or their own runner. Check reports failures in source-location formats and can output Subunit, TAP, XML, and generic logs.

Warum Paket-Nerds sich dafür interessieren

Check is significant because it is one of the classic packaged C testing libraries: small, C-focused, build-system-friendly, and old enough to be present in mainstream Linux, BSD, macOS, and source-based packaging ecosystems.

Zeitleiste

• 2001: 0.5.0 initial public release recorded in NEWS.
• 2001: 0.8.0 added nofork mode and pipe-based backend.
• 2002: License changed to LGPL in 0.8.1.
• 2010: checkmk helper added for reducing test boilerplate.
• 2015: GitHub repository created.
• 2020: 0.15.2 released.

Related projects

• GNU Autounit is cited by Check documentation as an influence for using forked test processes.
• Other C/C++ testing frameworks named in the manual include AceUnit, CUnit, CuTest, and CppUnit.
• Autoconf, Automake, CMake, pkg-config, TAP, XML, and Subunit are important integration points.

Quellen

• https://github.com/libcheck/check
• https://libcheck.github.io/check/
• https://libcheck.github.io/check/doc/check_html/check_2.html
• https://raw.githubusercontent.com/libcheck/check/master/NEWS