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CMock CMock is a highly automated testing framework based on Unity, a unit testing framework.

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! xUnit ! Mock ! Test Generator ! RTEMS tests ! XML output

| Yes | Yes | Yes | Support | No

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• Lisense: MIT License
• Programming Language: C
• Maturity:
• Projects:
• Maintainership:
  • 3 Core Developers: Mike Karlesky, Mark VanderVoord?, Greg Williams
  • Community(according to their website): 5 Contributors, 16 Bug Finders, 4 Mentors, 2 Porters, no estimation of users provided.

Cmockery Cmockery is a lightweight and highly portable unit testing framework with minimum conflicts with standard C library headers.

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! xUnit ! Mock ! Test Generator ! RTEMS tests ! XML output

| No | Yes | No | Support | No

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• License: Apache License 2.0
• Programming Language: C
• Maturity:
• Projects:
  • Latest download count: 4618
• Maintainership:
  • 4 Core Developers
  • Last release time: Sep 2008
  • Expected update: Cmockery 0.1.3
  • Community(Estimated): 93 users

Test-dept TestDept? is unit testing framework providing stubing capabilities.

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! xUnit ! Mock ! Test Generator ! RTEMS tests ! XML output

| Yes | Stub | No | Support | No

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• License: GNU GPL v3
• Programming Language: C, Assembly
• Maturity:
• Projects:
  • Latest Download count: 231
• Maintainership:
  • 2 Core Developer
  • Last Update Date: Nov 2010
  • Update Frequency before Nov 2010: every four month
  • Community(Estimated): 14 users

AceUnit AceUnit? is a simple unit testing framework based on CUnit and EmbUnit?.

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! xUnit ! Mock ! Test Generator ! RTEMS tests ! XML output

| Yes | No | Yes | Support | No

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• License: BSD
• Programming Language: C
• Maturity:
• Projects:
  • Download count: 13 downloads last week
• Maintainership:
  • 2 Core Developers
  • Last update date: 2009-9-30

Google Test and Google Mock Google Tests is unit testing framework conforming to xUnit architecture. Google Mock is a library that can be used to provide mocking functionality to other C++ testing frameworks as well. They can be used in combination for host based testing with powerful functionalities they provide.

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! xUnit ! Mock ! Test Generator ! RTEMS tests ! XML output

| Yes | Yes | No | Not support | Yes

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• License: New BSD license
• Programming Language: C++
• Maturity:
• Projects:
  • Download count: 86347 for Google Test, 30548 for Google Mock.
• Maintainership:
  • Core Developers: 11 for Google Test, 9 for Google Mock
  • Community: 1655 users for Google Test, 673 for Google Mock.
  • Latest update date: Apr 2011

Check Check is simple unit testing framework for test-driven development. {| class="wikitable"

! xUnit ! Mock ! Test Generator ! RTEMS tests ! XML output

| Yes | No | No | Not Support | Yes

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• License: LGPL
• Programming Language: C
• Maturity: fairly stable
• Projects:
  • BitlBee?: ​http://www.bitlbee.org/
  • checkmk: ​http://micah.cowan.name/projects/checkmk/
  • ctrlproxy: ​http://ctrlproxy.vernstok.nl/
  • Daimonin: ​http://sourceforge.net/projects/daimonin/
  • DBMail: ​http://www.dbmail.org/
  • Enlightenment (Eet and Eina libs): ​http://trac.enlightenment.org/e
  • EXIP: ​http://exip.sourceforge.net/
  • Expat: ​http://expat.sourceforge.net/
  • GNOME BuildBrigade?: ​http://live.gnome.org/BuildBrigade/
  • GStreamer: ​http://gstreamer.freedesktop.org/
  • GNUpdf: ​http://www.gnupdf.org/
  • Iodine: ​http://code.kryo.se/iodine/
  • Lasso: ​http://lasso.entrouvert.org/
  • libspmt: ​https://svn.sable.mcgill.ca/sable/spmt/libspmt/
  • Loudmouth: ​http://developer.imendio.com/projects/loudmouth/
  • OpenSync? (libopensync and libsyncml): ​http://www.opensync.org/
  • Pigment: ​https://code.fluendo.com/pigment/trac/wiki
  • RAPP: ​http://savannah.nongnu.org/projects/rapp
  • RedStore?: ​http://code.google.com/p/redstore/
  • SCEW: ​http://www.nongnu.org/scew/
  • SSSD: ​https://fedorahosted.org/sssd/
  • Tinymail: ​http://tinymail.org/
  • XCB: ​http://xcb.freedesktop.org/
  • Download count: 1132 last week
• Maintainership:
  • 4 Core Developers: Arien Malec, Chris Pickett, Fredrik Hugosson, and Robert Lemmen.
  • Last update date: 2009-9-23

CU CU is a lightweight and simple unit testing framework suited for host-based testing with enriched set of assertions. {| class="wikitable"

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| Yes | No | No | Not Support | Yes

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• License: GNU Lesser General Public License v3
• Programming Language: C
• Maturity:
• Projects:
• Maintainership:
  • 1 Core Developer: Daniel Fiser
  • Last update date: 2010-9-14

CxxTest CxxTest? is a unit testing framework in C++ with xUnit architecture. {| class="wikitable"

! xUnit ! Mock ! Test Generator ! RTEMS tests ! XML output

| Yes | Yes | Yes | Not Support | Yes

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• License: LGPL v2
• Programming Language: C++
• Maturity:
• Projects:
  • Download count: 114 downloads last week
• Maintainership:
  • Current Version: CxxTest? 4.0
  • 4 Core Developers
  • Last update date: 2012-1-7

CuTest CuTest? is very simple unit testing framework. {| class="wikitable"

! xUnit ! Mock ! Test Generator ! RTEMS tests ! XML output

| Yes | No | No | Not Support | No

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• License: GPL v2
• Programming Language: C
• Maturity:
• Projects:
  • Download count: 56 downloads last week
• Maintainership:
  • 1 Core Developer
  • Last update date: 2010-7-22

EmbUnit EmbUnit? is unit testing framework for embedded software. {| class="wikitable"

! xUnit ! Mock ! Test Generator ! RTEMS tests ! XML output

| Yes | No | No | Support | Yes

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• License: MIT
• Programming language C
• Maturity:
• Projects:
  • Download count: 25 last week.
• Maintainership:
  • Core Developers: 2
  • Last updated date: 2004-2-10
  • A bad review on sourceforge saying that a bug has not been fixed for a long time.