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+SPDX-License-Identifier: CC-BY-SA-4.0 OR BSD-2-Clause
+copyrights:
+- Copyright (C) 2022 embedded brains GmbH (http://www.embedded-brains.de
+enabled-by: true
+links:
+- role: requirement-refinement
+ uid: root
+non-functional-type: design
+rationale: |
+ In general, dead code should be avoided. For justified exceptions it is
+ acceptable, for example to avoid hard to maintain deviations from the RTEMS
+ mainline code. For these exceptions, unit tests may be used to achieve the
+ code and branch coverage goals.
+references: []
+requirement-type: non-functional
+text: |
+ Unit tests may be used to test code which is not testable through the
+ ${/glossary/api:/term}.
+type: requirement