On Sun, Nov 16, 2008 at 9:00 AM, Garrett Cooper <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sat, Nov 15, 2008 at 11:57 PM, Alexander Leidinger > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Quoting Garrett Cooper <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (from Sat, 15 Nov 2008 14:08:02 >> -0800): >> >>> Hello Hackers and Porters, >>> I'm currently working on a proposal to the FreeBSD foundation to >>> use Python Nose as a testing framework for writing tests. If there are >> >> Are you aware of the history of the current regression tests? >> >> If not: >> >> It started without a structure, then some work was done to move to the perl >> testing framework style (really only the output of the tests, and the naming >> conventions in the directory). This was not completed, and newer tests may >> not comply. >> >> The reason for choosing the perl style was, to be able to use the extensive >> perl tools to >> - automatically run all the tests >> - be able to compare different runs with the perl tools >> - be able to generate a lot of different output formats (html/text/...) >> >> There's also a wiki page about testing, which you may want to check out: >> http://wiki.freebsd.org/TetIntegration >> >> I don't really know python nose. I just looked at it quickly and can not see >> any big benefit compared to the perl test protocol outlined above (and the >> stuff outlined in the wiki looks even more advanced than that). Would you >> please elaborate where you see the benefits of it? >> >> Note that during release building perl is needed anyway to generate the >> index for the ports collection. I don't know if python is required currently >> during the release generation. >> >> Bye, >> Alexander. > > Alexander,
Wanted to clarify a few points where I didn't properly word things: > Thanks for getting back with me so quickly. Let me help explain a bit... [..] > executing entire tests, it's not helpful when executing selected s/entire tests/test suites/ [..] > developing a fix for a feature bugfix and were provided a single s/feature bugfix/feature/ [..] > Furthermore, s/Furthermore,// Thanks, -Garrett _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
