On Mon, Aug 13, 2012 at 9:46 AM, Paulo Roberto Massa Cereda
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>>> One possibility is to have a test spec, so we can have a "generic"
>>> test infrastructure which reads this spec and "knows" how to perform
>>> a certain analysis.
>>
>> Can you elaborate?  Currently we simply run some functions, and check
>> the output.
>
> I was just thinking out loud. :) I was thinking of a input format, say
> written in XML (/me looks at David) or another markup language, with a list
> of assertions, e.g, (sorry I don't know the innards of the tests neither L3
> sutff)
>
> <asserttrue input="\foo" expected="bar" />
>
> or something similar. To test a certain code snippet, a single test spec
> would suffice.

That looks to me like the technique of qstest’s `\Expect` macro.

--Joel