Re: [Libvir] [PATCH] Add new testing framework and the first test to use it.

On Wed, Mar 19, 2008 at 03:27:30PM +0100, Jim Meyering wrote: > A week or so ago, I read a bug report on this list with a simple > reproducer + fix that was just begging for a test suite addition. > > This change adds framework to make that easy, and adds the first test. > I uncovered problems in tests/Makefile.am along the way and just > posted a patch for that. > > This adds most of a portable (bourne-shell-based) test framework that also > provides for convenient isolation of individual tests (so we can easily > parallelize them without worrying one will tromp on files of another). > In a couple years when running "make check" runs hundreds of tests, > you'll definitely want them to run in parallel. The mktempd script is > not new. I first used it in coreutils and parted, but removed it from > coreutils after that package acquired its own C-based implementation. > > test-lib.sh is from coreutils, but was inspired by the file by the > same name in git.git's own t/ (tests) directory. All seems reasonable to me.