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From: silverio@brahms.berkeley.edu (C J Silverio)
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Subject: Re: Testing Tools...
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Date: 22 Jan 90 16:28:54 GMT
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   In article <2bbd2b567@caladan.UUCP> atreides@caladan.UUCP (System  
   Administrator) writes:

   My question is, does anyone know of the existance of commercially
   available tools for the Mac.  Or if you have developed tools, would
   you be willing to share them with the rest of the testing community on
   the net?

Well, there are some. Polytron makes a suite of these tools that runs
under MPW and many common IBM-PC development environments. I haven't
used any of their stuff. Their # is 1-800-547-4000 or (503)645-1150.
They'd love to send you a free catalog. They advertise heavily in
Computer Language magazine, a haven for people interested in the
"engineering" aspects of Computer Science.

I also spotted a pretty complete-looking suite from MMC AD Systems
(408)263-0781 in Computer Language.

Additionally, MPW 3.0 now contains Projector, a code-management module
with a pretty spiff user interface. I only know about it from the
article in Mac Tech Quarterly, Winter 1990 edition.

An alternative is simply to call the maker of your favorite package,
and ask them when they will port it to MPW. The Commando interface
makes this task damn near trivial. You could even do it yourself.

Recently, someone converted the C beautifier from GNU to an MPW
Commando and posted it.

have fun.