October 21, 2016

Dear Reactis User:

We are pleased to announce the availability of Reactis® for C V2016 which includes the new features listed below.

New API features

The Reactis for C API has been greatly expanded and improved:

• Reactis build files can be created, modified, and accessed.
• Reactis harness libraries can be created, modified, and accessed.
• Support for fully automated back-to-back testing.
• A MATLAB interface to the new API is included.

Test Harness Improvements

The following improvements have been made to test harnesses:

• Test harnesses now include an initialization function.
• Support for C code which performs fixed point calculations.
• Settings for the rounding mode and overflow behavior during data type conversions.

Stub file improvements

The following improvements have been made to stub files:

• Stub files now include all the type declarations required to compile.
• Stubs are not generated for unneeded functions and variables.

C Compiler Impovements

• Support GNU statement expressions.
• Ignore incomplete variable or function declarations which are never used.
• The argument of an include directive can now be a macro.
• Improved formatting of value shown when hovering on scalar character values and arrays of characters.
• Produce warnings instead of errors for GCC-style extended "asm" statements (the assembly code will be ignored).

Other Enhancements

• Support for Windows 10.
• Launch a quick HTML coverage report from the top-level Coverage menu.
• Option to export Booleans as integers in CSV file.
• Checkbox in Tester launch dialog to enable/disable pruning of tests after the random phase.
• The build file editor has been streamlined to make the use of libraries easier.
• The number of output differences for which details are printed in a test execution report can now be capped.

You may download the patches or full installers from the Reactis User Pages.

Best Regards,
The Reactis Team