Date: Sun, 16 Nov 2008 08:57:53 +0100 From: Alexander Leidinger <Alexander@Leidinger.net> To: Garrett Cooper <yanegomi@gmail.com> Cc: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Request for individuals interested in reviewing test / python topics Message-ID: <20081116085753.10415gcgqo0etm04@webmail.leidinger.net> In-Reply-To: <1155143A-D9F9-4988-B648-F9CDC2A4080C@gmail.com> References: <1155143A-D9F9-4988-B648-F9CDC2A4080C@gmail.com>
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Quoting Garrett Cooper <yanegomi@gmail.com> (from Sat, 15 Nov 2008 =20
14:08:02 -0800):
> Hello Hackers and Porters,
> =09I'm currently working on a proposal to the FreeBSD foundation to =20
> 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 =20
perl testing framework style (really only the output of the tests, and =20
the naming conventions in the directory). This was not completed, and =20
newer tests may not comply.
The reason for chosing the perl style was, to be able to use the =20
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 =20
not see any big benefit compared to the perl test protocol outlined =20
above (and the stuff outlined in the wiki looks even more advanced =20
than that). Would you please elaborate where you see the benefits of it?
Note that during release building perl is needed anyway to generate =20
the index for the ports collection. I don't know if python is required =20
currently during the release generation.
Bye,
Alexander.
--=20
I would have made a good pope.
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