Hi Lucas

We had discussed about it before whether LTP or Autotest. We decided 
Autotest because these tests will be written in Python and LTP does not 
support any reusable functions in Python.
I know these many tests will create lot many test wrappers, so what we 
have decided is, we will have directory like crontab, time and test suits 
under linux-tools as below
client/tests/linux-tools/time
client/tests/linux-tools/crontab

I will explore this in this weekend if this proposed way will work in 
autotest or not.

Regards
Poornima



Lucas Meneghel Rodrigues <[email protected]> 
01/14/2013 11:36 PM

To
Paul Davies C <[email protected]>, 
cc
Athira Rajeev/India/IBM@IBMIN, Poornima Nayak/India/IBM@IBMIN, Autotest 
Mailing list <[email protected]>, Rajeev S 
<[email protected]>
Subject
Re: [Autotest] [RFC] Testing time






I stepped for a moment and started to think about these wrappers
testing smaller, individual user space tools, such as crontab, time,
among others. It seems to me that such tests belong to a larger linux
test suite, such as LTP. Otherwise we'll end up with a large amount of
wrappers for tiny tests, which probably is not the granularity we're
aiming for.

So Poornima, Paul, Rajeev and the other folks - did you guys consider
to contribute such tests to LTP, for example?

On Sat, Jan 12, 2013 at 12:48 PM, Paul Davies C <[email protected]> 
wrote:
> Description:
>
>
> time runs the program COMMAND with any given arguments . When COMMAND
> finishes, time displays information about resources used by COMMAND (on 
the
> standard error output, by default). If COMMAND exits with non-zero 
status,
> time displays a warning message and the exit status. time can be used to
> track the real,system and user time of COMMAND.
>
>
> Dependent Binaries:
>
> /usr/bin/time
>
>
> Approach:
>
>
> Create a custom python script which will be given as input to time 
package.
>
> This custom python script will record its own resource usage statistics 
in
> temporary file.
>
> The time package is also made to store the resource usage statistics 
using
> its switches  of the custom python script in another file.
>
> The values in the above mentioned files are compared to verify the 
correct
> working of time.
>
> A custom shell script is also made so that the real time given by the 
time
> can be confirmed.
>
> This custom shell script has nothing except sleep command.
>
> Switches to be tested :
>
> time -p (lists real ,user and system time0
>
> time -v(Outputs an elaborated resource usage statistics)
>
> Test:
>
> time -p:
>
> Run time -p with custom shell script.
>
> Confirm the "real time" output with that of argument to sleep in custom
> shell script.
>
> time -v:
>
> Run time -v with custom python script.
>
> Compare the values in two output files generated by the time and the 
custom
> python script.
>
> Clean Up:
>
> Clean all the scripts/output files generated by the test
>
> --
> Regards,
> Paul Davies C
> vivafoss.blogspot.com
>
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Lucas


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