Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Usrp2 unit tests + valgrind

[Matt Ettus]

On 12/22/2009 01:54 PM, Gaetano Mendola wrote:
> Hi all,
> at the moment I'm following a project in where we use as
> development technique the "test driven development".
> We are using the libusrp2 as only component from gnuradio,
> and what we are missing is a sort of Usrp2 simulator in
> order to test our rx handlers. Does exist such component in
> gnuradio?

We don't have a USRP2 simulator, but it would certainly be a good thing 
to have.

> I have seen you use as unit test framework CppUnit, lately
> I have switched from CppUnit to gtest, is not hard to convert
> the old CppUnit tests, I converted myself around 250 test
> cases in a single day, having at the end more features like:
> disable some tests, run a single one, repeat some tests
> multiple time and other features you can read about it on
> gtest documentation.

We'll have to take a look at gtest.  Is cppunit no longer developed?

> Running our application under valgrind (3.5.0) no usrp2 is found,
> anyone has an idea why?

This may be a permissions problem.  You need to have root access for raw 
ethernet.

Matt