Legacy tests are tests that were included
in ACVC 1.12 that have been incorporated into later ACVC and ACATS versions.
These tests check only language features that are common to all versions
of Ada. The vast majority of these tests came unmodified from the ACVC
1.12 suite. Some tests were modified to check for the correct implementation
of Ada rules in cases where language rules changed from
[Ada83].
Unlike more modern tests, legacy tests use an ALL
CAPITALS programming style which is unusual and hard to read (
4.5).
They also use the naming conventions of early ACVC versions (see
4.3.1).
Modern tests (those created for the ACATS
more recently than ACVC 1.12) use a more typical Mixed Case programming
style (see
4.5 and use a more flexible naming
scheme (see
4.3.2).
