I am not sure it might be helpful to the OCaml community, as we already have well integrated test frameworks, but here is a tool I wrote in OCaml to work with GNU projects: autofonce is a modern runner for testsuites created for the GNU Autoconf tools. Compared to Autoconf tools, its main features …

A recent blog article on the subject: [image] Autofonce, GNU Autotests Revisited Since 2022, OCamlPro has been contributing to GnuCOBOL, the only fully open-source compiler for the COBOL language. To speed-up our contributions to the compiler, we developed a new tool, autofonce, to be a…

Very interesting project and the article. Since 2022, OCamlPro has been involved in a big modernization project for the French state: the goal is to move a large COBOL application, running on a former Bull mainframe ( GCOS ) to a cluster of Linux computers. The choice was made to use the most open-s…

[image] XVilka: I wonder, have you considered creating something like c2rust but for COBOL? To convert and refactor some of the COBOL sources into a modern language, e.g. OCaml (as it’s done by the OCamlPro)? There are already many such tools, targetting other languages from COBOL. However, v…

[image] XVilka: I know there is an open source project of translating it to Java: Open COBOL Solution WG in OSS Consortium · GitHub And actually, GnuCOBOL is a renaming of Open COBOL. So both projects are actually derived from the same code, formerly only targetting C and adapted to target Ja…

Autofonce, a modern runner for GNU Autotests suites

Ecosystem

lefessan July 4, 2023, 12:12pm 2

A recent blog article on the subject:

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[ANN] Testo 0.3 Ecosystem announce , testing , unit-test	1	211	January 20, 2026
[ANN] New release of Monolith (20201026) Community announce	2	1103	December 2, 2020
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[ANN] Testo 0.1.0 - a new testing framework for OCaml Ecosystem announce , testing	3	549	December 1, 2024
[ANN] Testo 0.2.0 – test library with support for snapshots, parallel runs, xfails, timeouts Ecosystem announce , testing	0	199	September 13, 2025

Autofonce, a modern runner for GNU Autotests suites

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