Serial Run-Time Error Detection Test Suite v1.1 Release Notes
                         Oct 17, 2005

Purpose:
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    Programmer productivity can be enhanced greatly by a system
with the ability to detect run-time errors when they occur and 
provide helpful messages. The worst case is when the error could 
have been detected but wasn't, and the program keeps running and 
produces incorrect output.

    These tests were created to test the ability of a compiler
and run-time system to detect run-time errors and to provide
adequate information to correct the error.

Design:
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    Runtime errors which should be detected by the run-time system
were identified for each of the three languages C, C++ and Fortran.
For each language, these errors were grouped into sections, and tests
were written which exhibited the given errors in different contexts. 

    A Bourne shell script named run_all_tests was written which 
1) runs all the tests in a language, 
2) checks each test for a pass at 4 levels A through D,
3) reports the number of passes at each level for each section, and
4) produces a grade for that language based on a four point scale D=1, A=4.

    "Ideal" messages are provided (with extension .ok_msgs) to provide
   an example of the desired message for a pass at the A level.

Download:
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   Test are available in either .tar.gz or .tar format at:
 http://rted.public.iastate.edu/tests.html

   Version 1.0 has been moved to
 http://rted.public.iastate.edu/v1.0


Running:
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   After download, issue either 
 tar -zxf RTED.tar.gz 
or
 tar -xf RTED.tar 
as appropriate to get a directory named RTED.

   In RTED, go to the appropriate language directory and
edit the file called CONFIGURATION. Several examples are 
included which can be copied and edited as needed. 

   Issue :
  ./run_all_tests
 This may take several minutes to several hours depending 
upon the system.

Examining output from a test:
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    Actual error messages for a language/section/test are stored in
language/section/RESULTS/testname.error and a sample of a desired message is in
language/section/RESULTS/testname.ok_msgs.  These can be shown easily by issuing:

  (cd language/section/ ; ../chk testname)

Version Information:
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  This is version 1.1 released Oct 17, 2005.

  The initial release, version 1.0, was released Sept 2, 2005.