Is there a Matlab tool similar to Python's Doctest?

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Is there a Matlab tool similar to Python's Doctest?

Hi,

In my Python development, doctest has really helped both to

make writing unit tests less annoying, and
integrate usage examples with documentation.

I was wondering, is there anything like this available in the Matlab world? It doesn't have to literally use code comments as a test, but if it had those two desirable qualities, that would be great!

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There is no direct equivalent to doctest in MATLAB.

There is, however, a nice unit testing framework on the Matlab File Exchange.

Jonas 2010-06-23 18:16:48

I've seen xUnit's existence.. I was really hoping for something that would integrate with documentation, though.

rescdsk 2010-06-23 19:27:03

If I wrote a clone of `doctest` for Matlab, by your best guess, do you think others would be interested in using it?

rescdsk 2010-06-24 19:10:54

I would think that this would have a decent chance of eventually making the `pick of the week` of the File Exchange. In other words: I believe that others would be very interested in this.

Jonas 2010-06-24 19:41:19

+1 A:

Not yet, but there is something to generate documentation called M2HTML.

It is very useful, and you can take a look at the examples at that page to see how wonderful results it's producing (even dependency graphs :) ).

For unit testing in MATLAB, even if there are many solutions, mlUnit was the most efficient to me.

A. Ionescu 2010-06-27 13:35:55

I'm actually already using m2HTML, you're right, it's very good. I was hoping to be able to add usage examples that would be automatically validated, and test the code at the same time.Thanks for the mlUnit recommendation

rescdsk 2010-06-28 19:32:43

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