Cobol

Cobol is supported since version 4.0. This page covers only the Cobol specific aspects. Please also read page Usage to get a complete picture of running unit tests..

Currently the following assertions are supported:

Setup and tear down procedures are named differently:

We will happily enable more procedures for Cobol if there is a need for it. Feel free to open a ticket on the Tickets page for that.

Creating test cases

Cobol Test Suites are created like in RPG. Different to RPG command RUCRTCBL is used:

RUCRTCBL TSTPGM(RPGUNIT/RUPLUGINT1) SRCFILE(QEXAMPLE)

Unlike RPG, which can export many procedures per module, Cobol is limited to one procedure per module. The good news is, that multiple compilation units can be entered in a single Cobol source member. See also Cobol example TEMPLCBL in file QSRC.

Compiling that source member produces the following modules:

TEST_FAIL1
TEST_FAIL0
TEST_FALSE
TEST_TRUE
TEARDWNSTE
TEARDWN
SETUP
SETUPSTE

Then all modules are linked to test tuite service programm TEMPLCBL.

Please also notice, that parameter NOMONOPRC must be specified either in the source member or at command RUCRTCBL.