On Sun, Dec 15, 2019 at 09:07:50AM +1000, Stuart Longland wrote:
> On 15/12/19 9:04 am, Antoine Jacoutot wrote:
> > On Sun, Dec 15, 2019 at 08:43:02AM +1000, Stuart Longland wrote:
> >> On 14/12/19 7:49 pm, Frank Beuth wrote:
> >>> OpenBSD doesn't have unit tests (or if they are, they're not in the main
> >>> source tree). How does the project ensure that such wonderfully quick
> >>> fixes don't introduce new bugs?
> >>
> >> I think what helps too is the KISS approach taken in the design of the
> >> software… I think a concept that the Linux community is sadly losing
> >> sight of.
> >>
> >> Simple code is much easier to patch, review and maintain.
> > 
> > Which should not be an excuse for a lacking test suite...
> 
> Well, off you go then. :-)  Get those butterflies¹ flapping.
> 
> The other nice thing about OpenBSD is the source code is right there, so
> writing unit tests around that should be comparatively trivial.

Absolutely.
Eagerly waiting for your contrib.

-- 
Antoine

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