Michael Lynch • 12/18/2023

Using Zig to Unit Test a C Application

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This article demonstrates how to leverage the Zig programming language to write unit tests for an existing C codebase without modifying the original C code or build system. Using the uStreamer video streaming application as a practical case study, it explores Zig's seamless C interoperability and first-class unit testing support to test a simple base64 encoding function from the C library.

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