MATLAB/Simulink Unit Test Framework

A unit test framework for matlab and simulink components

Description

Unit testing is a very powerful tool for maintaining high quality code. My code base consists of a mixture of matlab and simulink and this toolkit is an attempt to create a unified unit testing framework for my code. Unfortunately, the simulink part of this toolkit is heavily dependant on my model creation toolkit, so you will have to download that as well in order for this to work. Sorry.

• Required Products: Simulink
• MATLAB release: MATLAB 7.0.4 (R14SP2)

[Robert Meier]

Well... after "MATUnit", "munit" and "Unit Testing Tools" another unit testing framework, which is not "unified" at all.

Tests are created with input / output vectors as well as one of three "comparators" and saved to a .mat-file. Then these .mat-files are sequently loaded to the workspace and the corresponding "component" is executed. This is error-prone, because the tests might influence each other, e.g. the component might read the workspace variables of a prior test, two tests might accidentally use the same .mat-file or even the component might overwrite the .mat-file of a test.

Furthermore there is no "assert", no concept like test method, test suite or the fixture, no way to check for expected exceptions, etc.

As I can't find the "model creation toolkit", the Simulink part isn't working at all.

Finally, there are already two (!) great testing frameworks for Matlab:
(1) MUnit by Brad Phelan
http://xtargets.com/cms/Tutorials/Matlab-Programming/MUnit-Matlab-Unit-Testing.html
(2) mlUnit by Thomas Dohmke
http://mlunit.sourceforge.net/

[Jens]

Another unit and integration test framework for Simulink models is the commercial tool TPT at http://www.piketec.com/products/tpt.php