STRIDE 4.3.01x
This page documents the changes in STRIDE version 4.3.01x (code name Power Plant), released on Jun 9, 2011.
Please review this information before upgrading from an earlier version.
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What's New
Based on customer feedback this release includes many key usability improvements and bug fixes.
Script Remoting
A full featured Perl Remoting API has been developed. Now you both "call" and "double" a function that exists on the target in a perl test module.
Tracing
The Tracing subsystem has been reimplemented. Now it allows tracing on any remote activity - test point/log, functions, messages, etc.
Posix SDK
A new Posix SDK (a generalization of previously existing Linux SDK) has been developed.
Change Details
Fixes
This section describes defects which have been corrected in STRIDE and the customer tracking number associated with them, if any, in brackets [].
- Failure of an assertion test macro may result in incorrect code execution.
- Incorrect processing of a some complex expectation scenarios.
- STRIDE Build Tools error out on Linux with read-only access to $HOME.
- STRIDE Compiler may incorrectly handle bit fields in non-Microsoft mode.
- STRIDE Runner may incorrect traverse hidden folders.
- Unable to add more then one dynamic test case.
Tests in Scripts
- Improved test reporting support.
- There is no implicit trace content annotation per test module anymore.
- Error handling has been improved.
Tests in C/C++
- Simplified handling of dynamic test case status - added new srTEST_DONE status.
- Simplified handling of test doubles - added new srDOUBLE_RESET macro.
- Error handling has been improved.
Samples
- All samples have been updated.
Runtime
- STRIDE Host Release 4.3.01x is compatible with the Runtime Version 4.3.01
- All of the Runtime files have been modified. It is recommended that you update them all.
- The content of the Linux SDK has become part of the new Posix SDK.
- All Windows SDK files have been modified.
Minor and Patch releases
4.3.01a
New features and improvements:
- Windows SDK has been updated to support kernel mode testing.
- Added support for Perl version 5.14.
Defects corrected and the customer tracking number associated with them, if any, in brackets []:
- STRIDE Compiler fails to compile rvalue reference (i.e. T&&) syntax.
- Posix SDK source is not ANSI C complient and fails to compile in that mode.
- Posix SDK may fail to link in a minimalistic environment.
- In Visual Studio output window, STRIDE build log file hyperlink may not appear accurate.
- Test Unit Packaging Samples reference an undocumented macro.
The following Posix SDK files have been modified:
Makefile palIO.c palOS.c stride.h stride.c strideDaemon.c TestApp.c
The following Windows SDK files have been modified:
Makefile palIO.c stride.c stride.targets
