On 25 May 2017, at 11:44 PM, Jacob Champion <champio...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Last week I had a personal hackathon since I couldn't make it out to > ApacheCon. As a result there is now a C-language unit test suite available in > branches/httpdunit (based on trunk). I've tested it with a Windows+CMake > toolchain as well as an Ubuntu+autoconf toolchain. > > The suite itself is based on Check, which is a testing library I've had some > success with in the past. It's supported on a wide variety of platforms and > has a nice feature of running each test in a separate process space, so a > crash doesn't derail the entire suite. (Note: Check is LGPL.) The build > system has been augmented slightly to generate some of the more tedious > boilerplate code. > > If you want to give it a try, just install Check (and, if using the configure > scripts, make sure Check is visible via pkg-config). The test suite will then > automatically be added to the default targets. Once everything builds you > just run the suite directly with > > $ ./test/httpdunit > > As a Check binary, it has multiple knobs to control which tests run and how > the reporting is done, but by default it just runs all the tests and prints > TAP to stdout. > > The example tests that are currently running are testing a new API for strict > Base64 decoding. Right now it's a feature without a client; I included it > here because it was a good showcase of the test suite (see test/unit/base64.c > for the test case code). > > Let me know what you think! Love the idea of a test suite written in the same language as the server itself. It means that anyone who updates the server can use the same skills to update the tests. Regards, Graham —
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