From owner-freebsd-testing@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Mar 15 16:32:42 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 F2F67A40; Sat, 15 Mar 2014 16:32:41 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-pd0-x230.google.com (mail-pd0-x230.google.com [IPv6:2607:f8b0:400e:c02::230]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-RC4-SHA (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id C31EAB27; Sat, 15 Mar 2014 16:32:41 +0000 (UTC) Received: by mail-pd0-f176.google.com with SMTP id r10so3810233pdi.7 for ; Sat, 15 Mar 2014 09:32:41 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :cc:content-type; bh=0danhyGGgylQaB9OWfFKPLEpUIHkhB9ZBWinYh9j4lA=; b=V6OlriRnkg3cAGTAKMR0gytDMWr1iUFkfFB+7H1xcRvWqyscjPWDBzw+kqZNDDLZ1u 7Pv54+dK8hwE3B+m8xzHzwa6gOg+A62gltakOUMjHwm8+b9MZ9GX5oUXJcvTTndQhdXV rKgxDxwiSIH18WtPueftZdTgMZtaAjQh74bOGoq4wfByNK6E70Jaqrqc+etUMk+hXbQR XFIIXiZbQKZ4MOAPMMEAGQeUYC42TfwtaZC60QsHoOEediz4c18y5snflJl//zHYE9i/ 9rZwVt9ia/6f6CjaV+14wIJaI/sQysenPLEFSmb2IFVAnTlSfsjbTSd0jDGxclScDHgv aD5Q== MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Received: by 10.66.141.144 with SMTP id ro16mr15587808pab.131.1394901161147; Sat, 15 Mar 2014 09:32:41 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.68.63.38 with HTTP; Sat, 15 Mar 2014 09:32:41 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: References: Date: Sat, 15 Mar 2014 17:32:41 +0100 Message-ID: Subject: Re: GSoC Idea: Working on modernizing the tests of ATF From: dpl To: Julio Merino Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.17 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: Sat, 15 Mar 2014 16:32:42 -0000 I'm posting here in case some student sees this and want to create a proposal for this. I'm not finally going to write a proposal for this project. So, please, go ahead. :) 2014-03-13 3:01 GMT+01:00 Julio Merino : > 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 > -- Daniel