Product Overview

The ALGOL Test and Debug System (TADS) is an interactive tool for testing and debugging ALGOL programs and ALGOL libraries. ALGOL TADS enables you to monitor and control the execution of the software you are testing and to examine the data at any given point during program execution.

ALGOL TADS uses commonly understood interactive terms such as procedure names, variable names, source statement sequence numbers, and ALGOL expression syntax. It does not require familiarity with the details of the enterprise server hardware architecture.

General Features

ALGOL TADS enables you to interactively test and debug application programs and modules. You can suspend test program execution or interrupt it with breakpoint commands that you can set for individual variable conditions or for automatic fault conditions. A breakpoint interrupt enables you to interrogate data and conditions leading up to the condition that caused the interrupt.

You can display the flow of program execution to view the history of active procedures and the current position of the program. Statistics provide you with information about program statements that were not executed and the number of times specific statements were executed, along with information about the change of values during the execution phase.

You can store a series of commands to be used for controlled, automated testing. TADS stores the testing results so you can compare iterations of program testing for the effects of program modification or changes in program parameters.

TADS.View, an Editor enhancement, provides an improved and consistent interface for TADS users. For additional information, refer to the description with the Editor product in this section.

Configuration Requirements

One of the following compilers is required.

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Product Information

Refer to the ALGOL Test and Debug System (TADS) Programming Guide (8600 2144) for more information.