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diff --git a/community/gsoc/project_ideas/testing_framework.mdwn b/community/gsoc/project_ideas/testing_framework.mdwn new file mode 100644 index 00000000..ff9899d9 --- /dev/null +++ b/community/gsoc/project_ideas/testing_framework.mdwn @@ -0,0 +1,55 @@ +[[!meta copyright="Copyright © 2011 Free Software Foundation, Inc."]] + +[[!meta license="""[[!toggle id="license" text="GFDL 1.2+"]][[!toggleable +id="license" text="Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this +document under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.2 or +any later version published by the Free Software Foundation; with no Invariant +Sections, no Front-Cover Texts, and no Back-Cover Texts. A copy of the license +is included in the section entitled +[[GNU Free Documentation License|/fdl]]."]]"""]] + +[[!meta title="Automated Testing Framework"]] + +Hurd development would benefit greatly from automated tests. +Unit tests should be added for all the major components +(Mach; Hurd servers and libraries). +Also, functional tests can be performed on various levels: +Mach; individual servers; and interaction of several servers. + +(The highest level would actually be testing libc functionality, +which in turn uses the various Hurd mechanisms. +glibc already comes with a test suite -- +though it might be desirabe to add some extra tests +for exercising specific aspects of the Hurd...) + +Our page on [[automated testing|open_issues/unit_testing]] collects some relevant material. + +The Goal of this task is to provide testing frameworks +that allow automatically running tests +as part of the Hurd and Mach build processes. +The student will have to create the necessary infrastrucure, +and a couple of sample tests employing it. +Ideally, all the aspects mentioned above should be covered. +At least some have to be ready for use and upstream merging +before the end of the summer. + +(As a bonus, +in addition to these explicit tests, +it would be helpful to integrate some methods +for testing [[locking validity|libdiskfs_locking]], +performing static code analysis etc.) + +This task probably requires some previous experience +with unit testing of C programs, +as well as dealing with complex build systems. +No in-depth knowledge about any specific parts of the Hurd should be necessary, +but some general understanding of the Hurd architecture +will have to be aquired to complete this project. +This makes it a very good project +to get started on Hurd development :-) + +Possible mentors: ? + +Exercise: Create a program performing some simple test(s) on the Hurd or Mach code. +It doesn't need to be integrated in the build process yet -- +a standalone progrem with it's own Makefile is fine for now. |