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STUB of return type char* returning a NULL pointer in a Test RealTime test script

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Your function under test calls another function. The latter returns a pointer to a character or a NULL pointer. This function has the following prototype: char * returnCharPointer(void); How do you stub the function and in some tests make it return NULL? In other tests you need to return the address of a character. When you write: STUB returnCharPointer() NIL IBM Rational Test RealTime does not return NULL. The result is that the test always fails.

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16 June 2018

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