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Test suites

I am not aware of any language that is defined purely in terms of the behavior required by a test suite. If you define a test suite as the set of all programs written in a language, then there are some languages that could be said to be defined in terms of the programs that currently exist. But I don't know of any language where a hand written test suite plays a strong part in the language definition (although Ada comes close; I have heard stories of how the language definition was changed to match that of the test suite). Derek farn 22:02, 5 June 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Does this count? It is not part of the Ada Reference Manual, but in practice it plays a role in the social process of Ada programming and implementation not unlike that of a part of the language specification. k.lee 22:08, 5 June 2006 (UTC)[reply]
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