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A unit-testing prototype

May 26, 2008, 2:47 AM

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Hi everyone,

A while back, vapier added some tests for the toolchain-funcs eclass to
/usr/portage/eclass/tests/. I really like the idea, and I recently
discovered an xUnit-style unit-testing framework for shell scripts
called ShUnit2. I played with it a little and made a couple of
prototypes. Take a look and see what you think.

To get started:

layman -f -o http://gechi-overlay.sf.net/layman.xml -a gechi
emerge shunit2
sed -i -e "/^__SHUNIT_SHELL_FLAGS/s:u::g" /usr/share/shunit2/shunit2

Download the attached files to /usr/portage/eclass/tests, make 'em
executable and run 'em. The output looks something like this:

donnie@comet $ ./toolchain-funcs-shunit.sh
#
# Performing tests
#
test-tc-arch-kernel
test-tc-arch

#
# Test report
#
tests passed: 71 100%
tests failed: 0 0%
tests skipped: 0 0%
tests total: 71 100%

donnie@comet $ ./x-modular-shunit.sh
#
# Performing tests
#
test-x-modular_specs_check
test-x-modular_dri_check
ASSERT:DRIVER='yes' IUSE='dri' USE='dri' BUILT_WITH='yes'
test-x-modular_server_supports_drivers_check
ASSERT:DRIVER='yes' HAS_VER='yes' BUILT_WITH='yes'

#
# Test report
#
tests passed: 28 93%
tests failed: 2 7%
tests skipped: 0 0%
tests total: 30 100%

What do you think?

Thanks,
Donnie

Re: A unit-testing prototype [ In reply to ]

dberkholz at gentoo

Jun 12, 2008, 12:48 AM

Post #2 of 4 (247 views)

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On 02:47 Mon 26 May , Donnie Berkholz wrote:
> A while back, vapier added some tests for the toolchain-funcs eclass to
> /usr/portage/eclass/tests/. I really like the idea, and I recently
> discovered an xUnit-style unit-testing framework for shell scripts
> called ShUnit2. I played with it a little and made a couple of
> prototypes. Take a look and see what you think.

I've heard two positive comments on IRC and nothing else, so I'm
proceeding with this. I'll be adding these to the existing
/usr/portage/eclass/tests/, adding shunit2 to the tree, and beginning
some work looking into unit tests for portage's bash code.

Probably some for app-shells/bash would also be useful, since we seem to
pretty consistently run into weird breakage on new versions.

Thanks,
Donnie
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Re: A unit-testing prototype [ In reply to ]

aballier at gentoo

Jun 12, 2008, 1:42 AM

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On Thu, 12 Jun 2008 00:48:01 -0700
Donnie Berkholz <dberkholz@gentoo.org> wrote:

> On 02:47 Mon 26 May , Donnie Berkholz wrote:
> > A while back, vapier added some tests for the toolchain-funcs
> > eclass to /usr/portage/eclass/tests/. I really like the idea, and I
> > recently discovered an xUnit-style unit-testing framework for shell
> > scripts called ShUnit2. I played with it a little and made a couple
> > of prototypes. Take a look and see what you think.
>
> I've heard two positive comments on IRC and nothing else, so I'm
> proceeding with this. I'll be adding these to the existing
> /usr/portage/eclass/tests/, adding shunit2 to the tree, and beginning
> some work looking into unit tests for portage's bash code.

Great! Thanks. I didn't try it because I was too lazy to put shunit2 in
an overlay but had a look at the code. Tests cannot hurt, esp. for such
widely used code that eclasses are.
I'll probably use this to write tests for the couple of eclasses I
maintain.

Alexis.

Re: A unit-testing prototype [ In reply to ]

remi at gentoo

Jun 12, 2008, 2:59 AM

Post #4 of 4 (255 views)

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Donnie Berkholz a écrit :
> I've heard two positive comments on IRC and nothing else, so I'm
> proceeding with this. I'll be adding these to the existing
> /usr/portage/eclass/tests/, adding shunit2 to the tree, and beginning
> some work looking into unit tests for portage's bash code.

Could you let us know of your progress here or on your blog? I'm
interested in maybe writing a couple tests for the gnome2* eclasses.

Thanks for your work on this :)

Cheers

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LRI, INRIA
remi.cardona@lri.fr
remi@gentoo.org
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