Re: Techniques to detect API/ABI changes

["James \"Doc\" Livingston" <doclivingston gmail com>]

On Sun, 2006-11-12 at 17:16 +0100, �stein Gisn�wrote:
> Is it possible to create some kind of automated tests of the API so
> that both binary and semantic breakage can be detected? Does anyone
> have thoughts on this or pointers to such tests or frameworks in other
> projects?

I'm fairly certain GStreamer has an automated test for checking for ABI
breakage, which might be worth looking at. Semantic breakage would
probably be a lot harder to detect though.


Cheers,

James "Doc" Livingston
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