Re: [PATCH 0/3 RFC v2] selftests: Basic framework for tests

From: Alexandru Copot
Date: Thu Apr 25 2013 - 07:36:25 EST


On Thu, Apr 25, 2013 at 2:27 PM, Daniel Borkmann <dborkman@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> Signed-of-by Alexandru Copot <alex.mihai.c@xxxxxxxxx>
>
>
> It's: Signed-off-by: Alexandru Copot <alex.mihai.c@xxxxxxxxx>
>
> You have this wrong in all your patches.

I know, it was copy-pasted and I saw it just after sending. But for now
it's fine, these are just RFCs.

> Also, in patches 1-3 a proper commit message would be nice, i.e. in
> patch 1 when you add the library that everyone should use. It could be
> that your cover letter will not go into the Git history, thus people
> will only see you empty commit bodies.

You are right, I just thought the code was small enough to not
require a description.

Thanks!
Alex

On Thu, Apr 25, 2013 at 2:27 PM, Daniel Borkmann <dborkman@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On 04/25/2013 01:04 PM, Alexandru Copot wrote:
>>
>> This series adds a generic test abstraction that can make
>> writing testcases easier. A generic_test structure is
>> used to define a test and its methods: prepare, run, cleanup.
>>
>> This is a generic implementation so it was placed in selftests/lib.
>>
>> The second patch updates the socket tests to use the
>> new framework and the third patch creates new tests
>> for [set/get]sockopt with some IPV6_* options.
>
>
> This already looks better than the previous one. I will probably go
> a bit more in depth through the code in the evening. A couple of minor
> general items I can already tell you:
>
>> Signed-of-by Alexandru Copot <alex.mihai.c@xxxxxxxxx>
>
>
> It's: Signed-off-by: Alexandru Copot <alex.mihai.c@xxxxxxxxx>
>
> You have this wrong in all your patches.
>
> Also, in patches 1-3 a proper commit message would be nice, i.e. in
> patch 1 when you add the library that everyone should use. It could be
> that your cover letter will not go into the Git history, thus people
> will only see you empty commit bodies.
>
>
>> Cc: Daniel Baluta <dbaluta@xxxxxxxxxxx>
>>
>> Changes since v1:
>> - moved the implementation to selftests/lib
>> - use goto instead of directly returning
>>
>> Alexandru Copot (3):
>> selftests: introduce testing abstractions
>> selftests/net: update socket test to use new testing framework
>> selftests/net: add socket options test with IPv6 testcases
>>
>> tools/testing/selftests/Makefile | 3 +-
>> tools/testing/selftests/lib/Makefile | 14 ++
>> tools/testing/selftests/lib/selftests.c | 57 +++++++++
>> tools/testing/selftests/lib/selftests.h | 67 ++++++++++
>> tools/testing/selftests/net/Makefile | 17 ++-
>> tools/testing/selftests/net/run_netsocktests | 10 ++
>> tools/testing/selftests/net/socket.c | 108 +++++++++++-----
>> tools/testing/selftests/net/sockopt.c | 185
>> +++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>> 8 files changed, 425 insertions(+), 36 deletions(-)
>> create mode 100644 tools/testing/selftests/lib/Makefile
>> create mode 100644 tools/testing/selftests/lib/selftests.c
>> create mode 100644 tools/testing/selftests/lib/selftests.h
>> create mode 100644 tools/testing/selftests/net/sockopt.c
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