Re: [RFC] GDB sanity test

["Frank Ch. Eigler" <fche@redhat.com>]

Hi -

> [...]
> I guess if we rely on DejaGNU .log/.sum files as test data, we could write up
> a function to grok the results at the end of the .sum file to compare with what
> the actual bunsen parsers read. That is essentially how/why I wrote summarize.py.
> 
> Any other ideas how we might want to do this?

If this kind of ongoing sanity checking were valuable -- comparing
final .sum "# of FOOBAR" counts from dejagnu to parser output data,
then the parser could do that itself every time it runs, as a
confirmatory self-check.


> [...]
> The one obvious missing bit is being able to easily invoke tests. Right now,
> I just rely on "python3 -m pytest tests" to run all tests. Maybe a makefile
> or shell script to do this would be appropriate.

In the fche/bunsenql branch, there is now autoconf/automake machinery that
lets you run "configure; make; make check" and run the bulk of your test
in the automake style.


- FChE