From owner-freebsd-testing@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Mar 13 02:01:30 2014 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-testing@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ADH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 96B915A5 for ; Thu, 13 Mar 2014 02:01:30 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-qg0-f45.google.com (mail-qg0-f45.google.com [209.85.192.45]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-RC4-SHA (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 54F291DA for ; Thu, 13 Mar 2014 02:01:29 +0000 (UTC) Received: by mail-qg0-f45.google.com with SMTP id j5so1126516qga.4 for ; Wed, 12 Mar 2014 19:01:22 -0700 (PDT) X-Google-DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=1e100.net; s=20130820; h=x-gm-message-state:mime-version:sender:in-reply-to:references:from :date:message-id:subject:to:cc:content-type; bh=Pa280MnDgn2Qk3834uXLediETs0H1gmHCt34icGA3DM=; b=YQfbaht52HMFYNMOKgp2wYZ3ZlDxlRf1pJQKCaKo5CsWUcFgjFg+BWzSNr/G07vxjg p6pdQS4C0Yk95rCY6D1SMBW0t278Jm4MKXvz3tXZz98U8/SIKeV+gDBqC1mHeiDbBfhF eMmjyg+tgsoBUoV2ByrtdMA8SkZTCpMFMUz+WiW8nMscxTLFzmq711SEZ9NvnmgOwi44 T+5FDRZf73MKSHzy5IFiH9Z39dE3Q7U7/9uY0NcABUeAo0zfMTa0mnn0xI8IFjUIappY SLsH/8f5LyOVi1JqnCWVeiOTjmrVWKolcxBJMPWzfN1+tcaWvcx9mlCtvrU8j7JTd1iJ p2wg== X-Gm-Message-State: ALoCoQmm1ldfHzZDKf8vtwN72PvbnWIcTpH6B7jQuH6E2yxffnuKipbfpSYAcNOLhleppbH6/e9H X-Received: by 10.224.147.77 with SMTP id k13mr880579qav.64.1394676082613; Wed, 12 Mar 2014 19:01:22 -0700 (PDT) MIME-Version: 1.0 Sender: jmmv@meroh.net Received: by 10.96.83.102 with HTTP; Wed, 12 Mar 2014 19:01:02 -0700 (PDT) X-Originating-IP: [2401:fa00:4:1012:5cf9:3224:4bc7:7478] In-Reply-To: References: From: Julio Merino Date: Thu, 13 Mar 2014 11:01:02 +0900 X-Google-Sender-Auth: ojhrEhe2rCr3KQHjMWHBteHiUJE Message-ID: Subject: Re: GSoC Idea: Working on modernizing the tests of ATF To: tuchalia Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Cc: "freebsd-testing@freebsd.org" X-BeenThere: freebsd-testing@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.17 Precedence: list List-Id: Testing on FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 13 Mar 2014 02:01:30 -0000 On Thu, Mar 13, 2014 at 7:10 AM, tuchalia wrote: > Hi there, > > I'm a student willing to do this work. > I'm currently interested in a few projects, and I really like this one as > well. > > Where should I start looking to write a strong proposal? Hello, You should start by looking at the information in the TestSuite wiki page. Try to get familiar with the examples referenced from there: look for the code, read it, try to do some edits, etc. Then you can also dive into the code in tools/regression/ and tools/test/ to see what would need to be migrated. Here, you can use the prove(1) tool to run the tests that end in .t, so you could give that a try and see how that works as well. And, lastly, you can also look at the NetBSD source tree under the src/tests/ directory[1] or at Garret's GitHub repository[2]. There are many test programs there that can be easily made to run on FreeBSD. Getting one of those, hooking it into the build and preparing a patch for that would be a nice exercise. Hope this helps. 1: http://cvsweb.netbsd.org/bsdweb.cgi/src/tests/?only_with_tag=MAIN 2: https://github.com/yaneurabeya/freebsd