On 15/12/19 9:04 am, Antoine Jacoutot wrote: > On Sun, Dec 15, 2019 at 08:43:02AM +1000, Stuart Longland wrote: >> On 14/12/19 7:49 pm, Frank Beuth wrote: >>> OpenBSD doesn't have unit tests (or if they are, they're not in the main >>> source tree). How does the project ensure that such wonderfully quick >>> fixes don't introduce new bugs? >> >> I think what helps too is the KISS approach taken in the design of the >> software… I think a concept that the Linux community is sadly losing >> sight of. >> >> Simple code is much easier to patch, review and maintain. > > Which should not be an excuse for a lacking test suite...
Well, off you go then. :-) Get those butterflies¹ flapping. The other nice thing about OpenBSD is the source code is right there, so writing unit tests around that should be comparatively trivial. -- Stuart Longland (aka Redhatter, VK4MSL) I haven't lost my mind... ...it's backed up on a tape somewhere. 1. https://www.xkcd.com/378/
