entity test is end test; architecture only of test is begin -- only doit: process variable concatted : string(1 to 4); begin -- process doit concatted := "foo" & 'l'; assert concatted = "fool" report "TEST FAILED - concatted was not 'fool'" severity failure; assert not(concatted = "fool") report "TEST PASSED" severity note; wait; end process doit; end only;