Use case: unit testing on GNUCobol with Cobol-check

[jflnet]

Hi all,

I’m looking for a testing framework that can instrument unit tests for a batch application composed of several hundred COBOL programs running on Linux with GNUCobol.

The community around this tool is small but seems active, although most recent commits appear to focus on the z/OS implementation rather than the GNUCobol environment.

I have successfully tested cobol-check version 0.2.19, but I’m facing one integration issue: my application source code is written in free-format, while cobol-check appears to expect fixed-format input. It looks like I would need to refactor my source files to fixed format in order to fully adopt the tool.
Is there any plan to improve the tool in this regard?

Could you give me your opinion on using cobol-check in a Linux/GNUCobol environment?