How To Install api-sanity-checker on Fedora 36

In this tutorial we learn how to install api-sanity-checker in Fedora 36. api-sanity-checker is An automatic generator of basic unit tests for a shared C/C++ library

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install api-sanity-checker on Fedora 36.

What is `api-sanity-checker`

API Sanity Checker (ASC) is an automatic generator of basic unit tests for shared C/C++ libraries. It is able to generate reasonable (in most, but unfortunately not all, cases) input data for parameters and compose simple (“sanity” or “shallow”-quality) test cases for every function in the API through the analysis of declarations in header files. The quality of generated tests allows to check absence of critical errors in simple use cases. The tool is able to build and execute generated tests and detect crashes (segfaults), aborts, all kinds of emitted signals, non-zero program return code and program hanging. It may be considered as a tool for out-of-the-box low-cost sanity checking (fuzzing) of the library API or as a test development framework for initial generation of templates for advanced tests. Also it supports universal format of tests, random test generation mode, specialized data types and other useful features.

We can use yum or dnf to install api-sanity-checker on Fedora 36. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install api-sanity-checker.

Install api-sanity-checker on Fedora 36 Using dnf

Update yum database with dnf using the following command.

sudo dnf makecache --refresh

After updating yum database, We can install api-sanity-checker using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install api-sanity-checker

Install api-sanity-checker on Fedora 36 Using yum

Update yum database with yum using the following command.

sudo yum makecache --refresh

After updating yum database, We can install api-sanity-checker using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install api-sanity-checker

How To Uninstall api-sanity-checker on Fedora 36

To uninstall only the api-sanity-checker package we can use the following command:

sudo dnf remove api-sanity-checker

api-sanity-checker Package Contents on Fedora 36

/usr/bin/api-sanity-checker
/usr/share/api-sanity-checker
/usr/share/api-sanity-checker/modules
/usr/share/api-sanity-checker/modules/Internals
/usr/share/api-sanity-checker/modules/Internals/RegTests.pm
/usr/share/api-sanity-checker/modules/Internals/Scripts
/usr/share/api-sanity-checker/modules/Internals/Scripts/Sections.js
/usr/share/api-sanity-checker/modules/Internals/Styles
/usr/share/api-sanity-checker/modules/Internals/Styles/List.css
/usr/share/api-sanity-checker/modules/Internals/Styles/Report.css
/usr/share/api-sanity-checker/modules/Internals/Styles/Test.css
/usr/share/doc/api-sanity-checker
/usr/share/doc/api-sanity-checker/Changelog.html
/usr/share/doc/api-sanity-checker/README
/usr/share/doc/api-sanity-checker/Specialized-Type.html
/usr/share/doc/api-sanity-checker/Xml-Descriptor.html
/usr/share/doc/api-sanity-checker/index.html
/usr/share/licenses/api-sanity-checker
/usr/share/licenses/api-sanity-checker/LICENSE
/usr/share/man/man1/api-sanity-checker.1.gz

References

api-sanity-checker website

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install api-sanity-checker on Fedora 36 using yum and [dnf]((/fedora/36/dnf/).