2.4 Running the test suite

GNU Smalltalk comes with a set of files that provides a simple regression test suite.

To run the test suite, you should be connected to the top-level Smalltalk directory. Type

make check

You should see the names of the test suite files as they are processed, but that's it. Any other output indicates some problem. The only system that I know of which currently fails the test suite is the NeXT, and this is apparently due to their non-standard C runtime libraries.

The test suite is by no means exhaustive. See section 7. Future directions for GNU Smalltalk.