On Monday 10 June 2013 21:49:41 Alexander Neundorf wrote: > On Monday, June 10, 2013 09:19:15 AM Andreas Schneider wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I'm currently working on some libraries [1] which allows you advanced > > testing of daemons. Especially ones which require a network in testing. > > However for using this I need some features in CMake. This should be a > > discussion about these features. Maybe others have ideas and comments. > > > > What I would like to have is a feature to group tests. By default > > everything is in a standard test group. But you can define a special one: > > > > add_test(NAME <name> [CONFIGURATIONS [Debug|Release|...]] > > > > [GROUP <test_group>] > > [WORKING_DIRECTORY dir] > > COMMAND <command> [arg1 [arg2 ...]]) > > > > For a test group I need a way to define a setup/teardown command. Some > > tests might require a special setup on the machine to be able to run > > correctly. Like setting up a fake network. > > > > set_test_group_properties(PROPERTIES > > > > SETUP <command> [arg1 [arg2 ...]] > > TEARDOWN <command> [arg1 [arg2 ...]] > > ENVIRONMENT <env>) > > > > The setup function is called before the first test of the group is > > executed > > and the teardown functions after the last test finished. The environment > > should be obvious. > > > > > > Please comment. > > Why not simply set up and tear down that network for every test ?
Cause it is simply a waste of time and resources! What if I need a special VM with qemu for the test. Starting it and shutting it down for each test takes probably minutes. It makes more sense to set it up, run a bunch of tests and then shut it down. If I need to start a daemon which is a reference implementation and I need just to test aspects of connection details, it will never taint the environment and there is no need to stop it. -- andreas -- Andreas Schneider GPG-ID: F33E3FC6 www.cryptomilk.org a...@cryptomilk.org -- Powered by www.kitware.com Visit other Kitware open-source projects at http://www.kitware.com/opensource/opensource.html Please keep messages on-topic and check the CMake FAQ at: http://www.cmake.org/Wiki/CMake_FAQ Follow this link to subscribe/unsubscribe: http://public.kitware.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/cmake-developers