Hi, sorry for my late response. I was very busy the last days.
On 2014-10-30 15:08, Rainer Gerhards wrote: > rsyslog has a test suite for many years now, and I am continuously > expanding it. But it unfortunately covers only a subset of the code pathes. > Some of this is fixable, but e.g. config option interaction grows > exponentially, so you can never write (or run) sufficient tests for that. Every user should be able to run the test suite. The test suite must be able to run in a sandbox. That's not possible at the moment. Have a look at mysql, PHP, json-c, salt... this should be possible for rsyslog, too. Also, I am more talking about something like a unit testing framework. This should allow easy module testing. I am familiar with testing web applications, C# or C++ code on Windows. I never tried something similar on Linux yet, but this should be nearly the same. Let's see if I find the time to create a small demo so that you can get an idea (but don't expect anything before December). Regarding the last sentence: This *is* testable. Maybe it will require a rewrite of some components if your architecture never thought about being testable but this shouldn't be the problem. > Still, it would be very well to add a couple of hundred test cases, but > than the problem given above kicks in. Right now, I usually try to add a > test for any problem that was seen in practice. > > The testbench is invoked via "make check". It is run automatically every > day around noon CET and I receive notifications of these results. The most important thing about CI everybody has to understand: Every commit has to be tested. There are no exceptions. Tests must run automatically or people will start to ignore/bypass.. I can also help you to set up everything on GitHub. I will do that in my rsyslog clone. If you like it, you can move everything to the main repository. But as said before, don't expect anything before December. -Thomas _______________________________________________ rsyslog mailing list http://lists.adiscon.net/mailman/listinfo/rsyslog http://www.rsyslog.com/professional-services/ What's up with rsyslog? Follow https://twitter.com/rgerhards NOTE WELL: This is a PUBLIC mailing list, posts are ARCHIVED by a myriad of sites beyond our control. PLEASE UNSUBSCRIBE and DO NOT POST if you DON'T LIKE THAT.
