From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: Jonathan.rajotte-julien@efficios.com (Jonathan Rajotte Julien)
Date: Tue, 25 Oct 2016 11:50:05 -0400
Subject: [lttng-dev] [RFC/PATCH 0/3] babeltrace: test harness
 improvements + new tests
In-Reply-To: <1477409667-8309-1-git-send-email-nathan_lynch@mentor.com>
References: <1477409667-8309-1-git-send-email-nathan_lynch@mentor.com>
Message-ID: <70c97759-e06a-a744-7b71-e8a22275cc78@efficios.com>

Hi Nathan,


Simply curious


On 2016-10-25 11:34 AM, Nathan Lynch wrote:
> This is working toward moving from popt to GLib for command-line
> parsing.

What is the motivation behind this ?

Cheers

>   I want to add some tests for at least some of the converter
> command-line options in order to prevent regressions.
>
> I found it somewhat tedious to add even simple test scripts, so I
> investigated alternatives to doing Autoconf variable substitution, and
> this is what I came up with.  I think it makes adding a test script
> quite a bit easier.  It also makes the test harness more flexible at
> runtime, which is valuable when transferring a cross-compiled test
> suite to a target system for execution there.
>
> I've included the new tests I've written so far in patch #3.
>
> Nathan Lynch (3):
>    babeltrace: use AM_TESTS_ENVIRONMENT for tests
>    babeltrace: drop configure-time substitutions in test scripts
>    babeltrace: add simple tests for converter command line options
>
>   .gitignore                                         | 10 -----
>   configure.ac                                       | 12 ------
>   tests/Makefile.am                                  | 16 ++++++++
>   tests/bin/Makefile.am                              |  3 +-
>   tests/bin/intersection/Makefile.am                 |  2 +-
>   ...{bt_python_helper.py.in => bt_python_helper.py} |  9 +++--
>   .../{test_intersection.in => test_intersection}    |  7 +---
>   tests/bin/test_clock_cycles                        | 41 +++++++++++++++++++
>   tests/bin/test_clock_date                          | 47 ++++++++++++++++++++++
>   tests/bin/test_clock_seconds                       | 43 ++++++++++++++++++++
>   tests/bin/{test_formats.in => test_formats}        |  9 +----
>   tests/bin/test_no_delta                            | 40 ++++++++++++++++++
>   ...{test_packet_seq_num.in => test_packet_seq_num} | 16 +++-----
>   tests/bin/{test_trace_read.in => test_trace_read}  |  9 +----
>   ...st_dwarf_complete.in => test_bin_info_complete} |  4 +-
>   ...writer_complete.in => test_ctf_writer_complete} |  6 +--
>   ...st_bin_info_complete.in => test_dwarf_complete} |  4 +-
>   ...{test_seek_big_trace.in => test_seek_big_trace} |  4 +-
>   ...seek_empty_packet.in => test_seek_empty_packet} |  4 +-
>   19 files changed, 211 insertions(+), 75 deletions(-)
>   rename tests/bin/intersection/{bt_python_helper.py.in => bt_python_helper.py} (82%)
>   rename tests/bin/intersection/{test_intersection.in => test_intersection} (90%)
>   mode change 100644 => 100755
>   create mode 100755 tests/bin/test_clock_cycles
>   create mode 100755 tests/bin/test_clock_date
>   create mode 100755 tests/bin/test_clock_seconds
>   rename tests/bin/{test_formats.in => test_formats} (83%)
>   mode change 100644 => 100755
>   create mode 100755 tests/bin/test_no_delta
>   rename tests/bin/{test_packet_seq_num.in => test_packet_seq_num} (82%)
>   mode change 100644 => 100755
>   rename tests/bin/{test_trace_read.in => test_trace_read} (88%)
>   mode change 100644 => 100755
>   rename tests/lib/{test_dwarf_complete.in => test_bin_info_complete} (86%)
>   rename tests/lib/{test_ctf_writer_complete.in => test_ctf_writer_complete} (79%)
>   rename tests/lib/{test_bin_info_complete.in => test_dwarf_complete} (85%)
>   rename tests/lib/{test_seek_big_trace.in => test_seek_big_trace} (83%)
>   rename tests/lib/{test_seek_empty_packet.in => test_seek_empty_packet} (83%)
>

-- 
Jonathan R. Julien
Efficios