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octave-doctest

The Octave-Forge Doctest package finds specially-formatted blocks of example code within documentation files. It then executes the code and confirms the output is correct. This can be useful as part of a testing framework or simply to ensure that [...]

  • testing-extension
  • LIBRARY
  • Dev
  • TESTING
  • Dependency only
official+codex · reviewed · Jun 2, 2026 description in en

Description

Example code inside documentation can be executed and checked against expected output. This helps maintainers keep tutorials, help text, and examples accurate as Octave code changes.

It is a testing extension for documentation. Tests execute code snippets, so examples should be reviewed before running them in trusted environments.

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