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There's a few options for unit test frameworks as far as Ada goes.

AUnit:
This is the AdaCore/GNAT offering, based off JUnit with modifications. It works, there's plenty of documentation for it, and it's familiar to most people.

VectorCast/Ada:
Commercial. Excellent quality, but probably not what's wanted for a project like this.

Ahven:
I know nothing about this one. Never used it. Seems like another take on JUnit for Ada.

Testing:
My own testing framework. Offers some unusual features like procedure testing, but isn't mature and takes a considerably different approach so it's far less familiar.

Your call. I'll get unit tests made up once a decision is made.

Using your example in the README.md $ gnatgen new project my-project the GPR will be created with project my-project for which my-project is an invalid name literal. As such - should be rewritten into another character, probably _.

PS C:\Users\p-kel\Desktop\gnatgen\bin> .\gnatgen --help
Did not understand that
PS C:\Users\p-kel\Desktop\gnatgen\bin> .\gnatgen
Use:
gnatgen <action> [params]
  new project - to create a template of a new project

As seen, --help is not recognized and the help documentation that is printed out is incomplete, as the README.md is using "actions" such as print and p.

AdaCore/GNAT did a thing without making an announcement.

This is with v8.3.0, not sure exactly when the change was made.

Running the following will be ok

$ gnatgen new project name.with.dots.everywhere

But this will make the GPR file have a bunch of dots at the project name which probably won't be a good idea (not sure about what the specification says about this - it might be allowed for big projects, with subprojects that need building with other recipees).

For now a quick fix would be to replace the dots with an underscore. Good beginner issue for whoever may want to tackle this.

Per this comment a new name should be considered.