testplan.txt

===============================================
         Gilan & Ravikumar Test Plan
===============================================

Test E:
+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
The design of this test is to purposefully 
trip all the errors we should expect our 
program to throw and handle. These errors 
are outlined in the project description and 
the test is a simple allocation and freeing 
of variables to cause the desired errors.
This is important because we want our program
to accruately recognize and handle these errors
and we don't know if it can do that unless we
specifically write a test to cause those 
errors. That's why this test was included.

+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++

Test F:
+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
This test first allocates and frees a 2D matrix
to make sure our malloc and freeing can handle
such a situation. Then it allocates two 
consequtive blocks of memory, frees them, then 
allocates a new block of memory that merges 
those two previously allocated blocks.
It then does a similar test with the 2D matrix
but instead does it with a 3D matrix to make 
sure it can handle higher dimensions. And 
lastly, it allocates a char array and manually
adds characters to it to create a string. 
The idea of these tests were to test specific 
points of weakness in our design and make sure 
it could handle all of them. The merging of 
two freed spaces meant our program frees
properly and also can allocate into freed space
properly. The 2D and 3D matrices means our 
program handles higher dimension allocations
properly. And the creation of a string means
our program can store data in the allocated
spaces properly. That's why this test was 
written.