Date: Tue, 22 Sep 2009 13:01:34 +0100 (BST) From: Robert Watson <rwatson@FreeBSD.org> To: Bruce Cran <bruce@cran.org.uk> Cc: "Arno J. Klaassen" <arno@heho.snv.jussieu.fr>, current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Call for regression and performance testing - 8.0 Message-ID: <alpine.BSF.2.00.0909221300580.33122@fledge.watson.org> In-Reply-To: <20090922123647.000078e5@unknown> References: <alpine.BSF.2.00.0908121329130.66335@fledge.watson.org> <wpmy63sabp.fsf@heho.snv.jussieu.fr> <E7DF11DA-60A5-4DE5-B55C-D24A60D89D7B@freebsd.org> <20090922123647.000078e5@unknown>
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On Tue, 22 Sep 2009, Bruce Cran wrote: >> Resurfacing after organising conferences, and discovered I had missed this >> e-mail. I'm not aware of any such efforts, and it would be really good to >> do. Making it easy to do "runtests" would vastly improve the ease of >> testing during the release process. Right now the output of the tests is >> fairly inconsistent, and this is probably to a large extent my fault. It >> would be nice to have a "test template" program that people can start with >> when writing new regression tests -- I know I would find that valuable. > > There's already a limited template available: src/tools/regression/README > specifies the format to use, and many of the regression tests do use it. You > can run all the tests which use the specified format by running "prove -r" > (after installing devel/p5-Test-Harness), but there are currently quite a > few failures. > > Some tests don't use the template for good reason - for example > src/tools/regression/redzone9 depends on the DEBUG_REDZONE kernel option to > be present. However, others don't do it for a good reason -- perhaps mostly my tests? :-) If people want to convert them over that would be excellent. Robert
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