testsuite: about classifying the cases in systemtap.base

testsuite: about classifying the cases in systemtap.base

["Zhou, Wenjian/周文剑"]

Hello David,

I noticed that there are more than 200 cases in systemtap.base.
And most of them can be classified easily.
I'm going to make sub-directories in systemtap.base.

But I'm not sure whether it is worth to be done.
It will help me a lot if you can give some advises.

-- 
Thanks
Zhou

Re: testsuite: about classifying the cases in systemtap.base

[Frank Ch. Eigler]

Hi -

> I noticed that there are more than 200 cases in systemtap.base.
> And most of them can be classified easily.
> I'm going to make sub-directories in systemtap.base.

(One would do this more by making new sibling subdirectories
beside rather than within systemtap.base)

> But I'm not sure whether it is worth to be done.

What value do you see to such a change?


- FChE

Re: testsuite: about classifying the cases in systemtap.base

[David Smith]

On 11/06/2015 07:45 AM, Frank Ch. Eigler wrote:
> 
> Hi -
> 
>> I noticed that there are more than 200 cases in systemtap.base.
>> And most of them can be classified easily.
>> I'm going to make sub-directories in systemtap.base.
> 
> (One would do this more by making new sibling subdirectories
> beside rather than within systemtap.base)
> 
>> But I'm not sure whether it is worth to be done.
> 
> What value do you see to such a change?

I see some value in such a change, but I think the biggest disadvantage
to such a change is that comparing test results between releases becomes
quite difficult if the testsuite is rearranged.

At the current point, I think the disadvantages outweighs the advantages.

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David Smith
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Re: testsuite: about classifying the cases in systemtap.base

["Zhou, Wenjian/周文剑"]

On 11/07/2015 02:33 AM, David Smith wrote:
> On 11/06/2015 07:45 AM, Frank Ch. Eigler wrote:
>>
>> Hi -
>>
>>> I noticed that there are more than 200 cases in systemtap.base.
>>> And most of them can be classified easily.
>>> I'm going to make sub-directories in systemtap.base.
>>
>> (One would do this more by making new sibling subdirectories
>> beside rather than within systemtap.base)
>>
>>> But I'm not sure whether it is worth to be done.
>>
>> What value do you see to such a change?

It will make different cases be better understood and distinguished.

>
> I see some value in such a change, but I think the biggest disadvantage
> to such a change is that comparing test results between releases becomes
> quite difficult if the testsuite is rearranged.
>
> At the current point, I think the disadvantages outweighs the advantages.
>

I was just confused of that. Thank you for your advice and I won't rearrange
the testsuite.

-- 
Thanks
Zhou