# Command: unittest::failbutnocrash_or_die

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Name:

    unittest::failbutnocrash_or_die - Execute a code block and exit with exit code 3 if it does not raise a scripterror

Synopsis:

    { code } [string] failbutnocrash_or_die ->	-

Examples:

      {add}	 (add ok) failbutnocrash_or_die  -> success
      {1 0 div} failbutnocrash_or_die  -> success
      {add_dd}  failbutnocrash_or_die  -> quit

Description:

      The procedure tests that a specific error, a scripterror, is raised. An example
      is a call of operator add in a situation where the operand stack is empty. add
      raises a StackUnderflow error in this case which is a scripterror and the desired
      behavior. There are several alternative and undesired behaviors of the code block
      in question. add may return without raising an error, this is not the expected behavior
      and therefore failbutnocrash_or_die reports a problem. However, other scenarios
      are that the code block causes an assertion to fail or that it causes a segmentation
      fault. In contrast to fail_or_die, failbutnocrash_or_die survives such a crash of
      the code block to be tested. This is achieved by probing the code block in a separate
      nest instance and inspecting the result. The procedure uses the symbolic exit codes
      defined in statusdict::exitcodes, scripterror is one of them.

Diagnostics:

      This function will quit nest  (exit code 3) if the code does NOT raise an error of the
      scripterror type. It will print an error message to cerr, too.

Availability:

    SLI-2.0

Author:

    Diesmann

FirstVersion:

    090209

SeeAlso:

- unittest::fail_or_die
- assert
- quit

Source:

    /opt/conda/conda-bld/nest_1510212701067/work/nest-2.14.0/lib/sli/unittest.sli

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