Migrate to Autotest for testing framework?

Migrate to Autotest for testing framework?

[Sam Lauber]

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Re: Migrate to Autotest for testing framework?

[Georg Bauhaus]

Sam Lauber wrote:
> (sorry for the empty message, I accidently hit `send')
> 
> I think GCC should use GNU Autotest (part of Autoconf) as 
> the testing framework instead of DejaGNU.  It would (1) 
> allow GCC to be tested on the platforms DejaGNU does not 
> support, and (2) have the advantage of the shell. 

It has been a royal pain to compile auto*ed software
on OSs without a Unix emulation on top (process model,
pipes, job control, tool set including full bash). I don't think
that importing even more of the complexities of the O(terrible(n))
Autoconf dependence set will help porting?

Georg

Re: Migrate to Autotest for testing framework?

[J.T. Conklin]

"Sam Lauber" <sam124@operamail.com> writes:
> I think GCC should use GNU Autotest (part of Autoconf) as 
> the testing framework instead of DejaGNU.  It would (1) 
> allow GCC to be tested on the platforms DejaGNU does not 
> support, and (2) have the advantage of the shell.  Also, 
> since GCC is complexly tested, it would help Autotest 
> development too.

Have you looked at the capabilities of DejaGNU the GCC testsuite uses
and compared them with what's available with Autotest?  It seems like
a huge gulf to me.  IMO it would be far easier to port DejaGNU to any
platforms where it's not supported than it would be to port the test-
suite itself.

It's not clear to me that the shell is a better language than tcl for
test suite development.  I think Python is, which is why I use QMTest
for my personal use.

    --jtc

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Migrate to Autotest for testing framework?

[Sam Lauber]

(sorry for the empty message, I accidently hit `send')

I think GCC should use GNU Autotest (part of Autoconf) as 
the testing framework instead of DejaGNU.  It would (1) 
allow GCC to be tested on the platforms DejaGNU does not 
support, and (2) have the advantage of the shell.  Also, 
since GCC is complexly tested, it would help Autotest 
development too.

Samuel Lauber

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