Anthony Towns writes ("Re: Automated testing - design and interfaces"):
> On Mon, Nov 21, 2005 at 06:22:37PM +, Ian Jackson wrote:
> > This is no good because we want the test environment to be able to
> > tell which tests failed, so the test cases have to be e
On Wed, 2005-11-23 at 18:16 +1000, Anthony Towns wrote:
> On Mon, Nov 21, 2005 at 06:22:37PM +, Ian Jackson wrote:
> > > Note that it's often better to have a single script run many tests, so
> > > you probably want to allow tests to pass back some summary information,
> > > or include the last
On Mon, Nov 21, 2005 at 06:22:37PM +, Ian Jackson wrote:
> > Note that it's often better to have a single script run many tests, so
> > you probably want to allow tests to pass back some summary information,
> > or include the last ten lines of its output or similar. Something like:
> > foo F
Anthony Towns writes ("Re: Automated testing - design and interfaces"):
> On Thu, Nov 17, 2005 at 06:43:32PM +, Ian Jackson wrote:
> > The source package provides a test metadata file debian/tests/
> > control. This is a file containing zero or more RFC822-style
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On Thu, 2005-11-17 at 14:36 -0800, Steve Langasek wrote:
> [let's get this over to a technical list like it was supposed to be ;)]
> > Following your exit status based approach you could add to stanzas
> > something like:
>
> > Expected-Status: 0
>
> > I found the above requirement the very mi
On Thu, Nov 17, 2005 at 02:36:06PM -0800, Steve Langasek wrote:
> FWIW, I don't see that there's a clear advantage to having the test harness
> *expect* non-zero exit values (or non-empty output as you also suggested).
As I understood it, the proposed approach is about standardizing and
easing the
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On Thu, Nov 17, 2005 at 06:43:32PM +, Ian Jackson wrote:
> Note that the point is to be able to test the _actual package_, _as
> installed_ (eg on a testbed system). This is much better than testing
> the package from the source treeu during build time
[let's get this over to a technical list like it was supposed to be ;)]
On Thu, Nov 17, 2005 at 10:43:34PM +0100, Stefano Zacchiroli wrote:
> On Thu, Nov 17, 2005 at 06:43:32PM +, Ian Jackson wrote:
> > This means execute debian/tests/fred, debian/tests/bill, etc.,
> > each with no argumen
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