Question

In my Python development, doctest has really helped both to

• make writing unit tests less annoying, and
• integrate usage examples with documentation.

I was wondering, is there anything like this available in the Matlab world? It doesn’t have to literally use code comments as a test, but if it had those two desirable qualities, that would be great!

Answer 1

This exists now! There are three versions out there:

• An Octave-compatible version that still gets some development
• A version of Matlab-xUnit with an integrated doctest runner
• The original version from 2010, which is self-contained and emits results in TAP format