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diff --git a/community/gsoc/project_ideas/testsuites.mdwn b/community/gsoc/project_ideas/testsuites.mdwn index 7cb7d103..f5ee2084 100644 --- a/community/gsoc/project_ideas/testsuites.mdwn +++ b/community/gsoc/project_ideas/testsuites.mdwn @@ -1,20 +1,27 @@ -[[!meta copyright="Copyright © 2010 Free Software Foundation, Inc."]] +[[!meta copyright="Copyright © 2010, 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]]."]]"""]] +is included in the section entitled [[GNU Free Documentation +License|/fdl]]."]]"""]] [[!meta title="Fix Compatibility Problems Exposed by Testsuites"]] A number of software packages come with extensive testsuites. -Some notable ones are libc, Perl, Python, GNU Coreutils, and glib. +Some notable ones are [[glibc|open_issues/glibc_testsuite]], gnulib, Perl, +Python, GNU Coreutils, and glib. While these testsuites were written mostly to track regressions in the respective packages, some of the tests fail on the Hurd in general. +There is also the [[Open POSIX Testsuite|open_issues/open_posix_test_suite]] +which is more of a whole system interface testing suite. + +Then, there is the [[open_issues/File_System_Exerciser]] which we can use to +test our file system servers for conformity. + While in some cases these might point to wrong usage of system interfaces, most of the time such failures are actually caused by shortcomings in Hurd's implementation of these interfaces. These shortcomings are often not obvious in normal use, @@ -42,6 +49,9 @@ While tracking down the various issues, the student will be digging into the inner workings of the Hurd, and thus gradually gaining the knowledge required for Hurd development in general. +A complementary task is adding a proper [[open_issues/unit_testing]] framework +to the GNU Hurd's code base, and related packages. + Possible mentors: Samuel Thibault (youpi) Exercise: Take a stab at one of the testsuite failures, |