GREAT TIP! I will definitely look at this before I start working on the suite.
Thanks, Ryan ---------------------------------------------- Ryan Bloom [EMAIL PROTECTED] 645 Howard St. [EMAIL PROTECTED] San Francisco, CA > -----Original Message----- > From: B. W. Fitzpatrick [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Friday, July 05, 2002 3:46 PM > To: Ryan Bloom > Cc: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [RANT] our test suite sucks > > > > On Fri, 5 Jul 2002, Ryan Bloom wrote: > > > > > The original intent for the test suite was that somebody could run the > APR > > test suite on their implementation of APR, and be sure that they are > 100% > > compatible. The current test suite doesn't even come close to > > implementing that. In fact, most of the tests don't even give useful > > information about whether a feature is working as it is supposed to. I > am > > trying to test my new poll implementation, but I am spending more time > > interpreting the test rsults than actually fixing the code. > > > > In the next few weeks, I will be creating a real test suite for APR. It > > will be either Perl or Python based, and all tests will be required to > > report success or failure only in the default mode. If more information > > is required, that will be done through a verbose mode, much like the > perl > > test suite for httpd. > > You might want to consider check, a unit test framework for C. It was > super simple to setup, and adding tests is really a snap: > > http://check.sourceforge.net/ > > -Fitz, hoping he's not starting a test suite flame war
