So, um, I'm tbrownaw on IRC and I've been around here a while now. I'm also a student at UIUC [http://www.ece.uiuc.edu/], graduating this december (yay!).
For SoC I'm working on rewriting our testsuite in lua, in n.v.m.lua-testsuite . So far I've got the first 27 tests, which now take ~50sec instead of the ~150sec they take with the old testsuite. Started about a week ago, will end when it's done (hopefully by late August). I've had to add some platform-specific code, for setting env vars and redirecting the standard filedescriptors. These are currently in tester.cc, would they be useful enough in monotone proper (say, for our lua hooks there) that we'd want them as part of libplatform.a? Right now, I'm trying to get it to compile in VC8. I've been adding functionality as needed by individual tests; I think all that's left is background process support (for netsync). That's next, then back to translating more tests. Cool new features so far: * each test is a directory, not a single file. There's a command to copy supporting files into the scratch directory. (getfile("name-in-test-dir" [, "name-in-scratch-dir"])) * no "make testsuite" each time you tweak a test. * xfail applies to a specific command, not the entire test. If an xfailed test fails in the wrong place, it'll tell you. * you can specify the stdin for a command the same way you specify the expected stdout/stderr. * tests can be specified by regex (against the test name) or number. Negative numbers count backwards. (./tester -1 is good for checking a new test you've just added) * seems to be about 3x faster on Linux. There's probably a bigger improvement on Windows, since autotest uses pretty excessive fork()ing. * failed commands log a backtrace, showing exactly what it was doing. I've also tried to keep nice things from autotest like individual scratch dirs, -d to not clean up, and detailed logging. Tim _______________________________________________ Monotone-devel mailing list Monotone-devel@nongnu.org http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/monotone-devel