Hi all, I’ve just pushed a patchset which removes the current testing implementation and replaces it with a work in progress test framework. This framework is meant to be a strong starting point for a new testing infrastructure which would allow for more test coverage and an easier/better user experience. The new framework is completely functional as it stands, but I am open to suggestions, criticism and change requests that might improve it further.
Just to briefly motivate this patch, there are quite a few reasons I believe the current testing framework is not suitable and is worth completely replacing. The main reason is that there are too many different ways to access the testing system, each of which is documented separately. The biggest cause of this is the reliance on SCons to enumerate and provide the dependencies for the tests. This proposed framework removes that dependency and provides its own method for tracking dependencies - fixtures. (These are described in more detail in the documentation.) In addition to the patch directly applied to gem5 found https://gem5-review.googlesource.com/c/4420. You can find the library in its own development branch on github here https://github.com/spwilson2/whimsy. The documentation has already been generated and can be browsed here https://spwilson2.github.io/whimsy/. In case the paragraph above wasn’t enough, the first few sections of the documentation provide some more motivation for this library before introducing the framework in full. Finally, I only have a week left that I will have dedicated to development on this project, so I appreciate hearing comments sooner rather than later! Thanks all! - Sean Wilson _______________________________________________ gem5-dev mailing list gem5-dev@gem5.org http://m5sim.org/mailman/listinfo/gem5-dev
