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Re: The test suite is cool


On Tue, Oct 02, 2001 at 03:32:16PM +0400, egor duda wrote:
>Hi!
>
>Tuesday, 02 October, 2001 Christopher Faylor cgf@redhat.com wrote:
>
>CF> I just wanted to spread some test suite kudos in Egor's direction.
>
>well, most kudos should go to the guys from linux testing project, i
>just did the porting.
>
>CF> I've been trying to school myself to run the test suite before I check in
>CF> changes and whaddaya know?  I've found some problems in my code (I can
>CF> hear the collective gasps now).
>
>cool indeed :) i wonder if it's possible to add 'make check' to
>snapshot building scripts (if they're running natively, of course) and
>post results on snapshots page.

Nope.  I build everything on linux.  Eventually, I'll be building everything
on sourceware.

>CF> I'd like to start adding some more regression tests to the testsuite.  I
>CF> know that I could figure out how to do this but I'm wondering if a
>CF> "how-to-add-things-to-the-test-suite" would be appropriate.
>CF> Egor, would you be willing to add something like this?
>
>hmm, i don't really know what can i add to README written by DJ. Maybe
>except CYGWIN_TESTSUITE_TESTS variable description, which is rather
>recent addition. for those who interested, this variable can be used
>to make testsuite skip all tests except those that match regexp,
>assigned to this variable. so, if i want to run e.g. lseek tests only,
>i start testsuite with something like
>'make check CYGWIN_TESTSUITE_TESTS=\.\*lseek\.\*'
>
>otherwise, one should just write a *.c program which returns 0 status
>on success and non-zero on failure.
>
>what i definitely _can_ write is a testsuite TODO :) i have some ideas
>to make testsuite more useful (this includes [better] w9x support,
>testing for memory leaks, some kind of benchmarking etc.)

Ok.  Sounds good.  I'd forgotten about the README.  My bad.

cgf


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