Re: SN status?

[Mo DeJong <mdejong@cygnus.com>]

On Thu, 22 Feb 2001, Ben Elliston wrote:

> >>>>> "Mo" == Mo DeJong <mdejong@cygnus.com> writes:
> 
>   Mo> No. We have been talking about implementing a nice XML layer
>   Mo> that would sit between the parsers and the DB backend.
>   Mo> That would let us write test cases quite easily, the
>   Mo> problem is finding enough time to implement it.
> 
> One thing I've been itching to do is knock together a DejaGNU
> framework that allows us to test the C/C++ parser against the GCC
> testsuite.  Of course, we can maintain our own smaller regression
> testsuite, but to get all of these tests for such little effort would
> be a win.
> 
> Ben


I don't really want to go the whole DejaGNU route.
I think we can do everything we need with straight tcltest.

You might want to check out this article:

http://www-106.ibm.com/developerworks/library/l-jacks/?dwzone=linux

It is about a test system I wrote based on tcltest
and why I avoided DejaGNU. An XML based test system
for SN parsers would be very much the same except that we
would need to compare the output a bit differently.

Mo DeJong
Red Hat Inc