Date: Sat, 15 Mar 2014 17:32:41 +0100 From: dpl <tuchalia@gmail.com> To: Julio Merino <jmmv@freebsd.org> Cc: "freebsd-testing@freebsd.org" <freebsd-testing@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: GSoC Idea: Working on modernizing the tests of ATF Message-ID: <CA%2ByaQw_rBjhzhoNfooUKyTBSEb3f4xdTnBeQY5RYWFtgwQGrSg@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <CAFY7cWBpdKW2q4M43N9d0=wGt80gJCGbou0RCf9jmJESyRzXcQ@mail.gmail.com> References: <CA%2ByaQw-NcvwVu_rzsiywQNuX1JG53eXZNm9cmsJ6p%2BTL_Jb-_w@mail.gmail.com> <CAFY7cWBpdKW2q4M43N9d0=wGt80gJCGbou0RCf9jmJESyRzXcQ@mail.gmail.com>
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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 <jmmv@freebsd.org>: > On Thu, Mar 13, 2014 at 7:10 AM, tuchalia <tuchalia@gmail.com> 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
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