PART I
ATAC & ATAC
Testing is an essential part of software development. However, testing software can be both
complex and expensive. Automated support for effective testing techniques makes it easier
and cheaper to do a better job of testing and to produce higher quality software.
ATAC (X-based Automatic Test Analysis for C) extends the functionality of ATAC by
using state of the art color graphical interfaces. The ease of use improvement of
ATAC
over ATAC is dramatic. Test cases are easy to create and coverage testing is a pleasure
rather than a chore. Notwithstanding the marked superiority of
ATAC, ATAC is a
valuable tool when only an ASCII terminal is available. Moreover, much of the
functionality of ATAC and
ATAC are the same, so knowledge of one is valuable in
understanding the other. For these reasons, this manual is as much about ATAC as it is
about
ATAC.
ATAC have many useful features, some of which are: