List of testing tool to assess

[connoraird]

When completing an assessment we should create/add to a list of features we want to assess each tool against

• CTest
• fpm
• pfunit
• test-drive
• veggies/vegetables/garden
  • Work out the difference between these three See comments below

[dleggat]

There is a Fortran wiki listing a lot of testing tools here: https://fortranwiki.org/fortran/show/Unit+testing+frameworks

[connoraird]

Vegetables has been retired in favour of veggies/garden (see this commit)

[connoraird]

This announcement explains the difference between veggies and garden.

veggies is for serial only applications and garden is for testing parallel applications. However, I think it is just because of compiler issues. Development is only happening on garden and then being merged into veggies.

[connoraird]

I have raised a PR to add double precision integer assert_equals functions

[connoraird]

From Brad, "Use garden if you're testing code with coarray features". Therefore, veggies is the main tool to contribute to and use.