[Omake] Re: Tests

[David Kågedal]

David Kågedal <davidk at lysator.liu.se> writes:

> Aleksey Nogin <nogin at metaprl.org> writes:
>
>> On 14.06.2007 08:42, David Kågedal wrote:
>>
>>> OK, now there is some kind of test suite in the 0.9.8.4 branch.  To
>>> run it, type "omake check".
>>
>> Cool, thanks!
>
> I found a couple of problems in my test cases that I will fix shortly.
>
>>> Please try it out and see if it actually works. Also look at my code
>>> to see if I did something stupid.  And finally, please have a look at
>>> all the test cases that are failing.
>>
>> I've updated the tests/OMakefile slightly, however there is still a
>> fundamental problem with it - currently it assumes the success is
>> signaled by the exit status. Instead, we need some framework for
>> comparing the actual result with the expected ones. For example, in
>> some of the tests that are currently considered "failing", OMake is
>> _supposed_ to die (e.g. exn/Test1). In some, the point of the test is
>> to see if the output is what we expect it to be (all the awk tests),
>> in some - whether the right targets are created...
>
> The awk tests could potentially handle that themselves by sending the
> output to a file and checking the result in the test script.  But the
> expected failures are harder to handle this way.
>
> I'll think some more about it.

I updated the awk tests to check the output.  The other tests can be
fixed in a similar way.

But I wonder how well that "diff -u" will work on windows, come to
think about it.

Btw, what is the omake-devel list?

-- 
David Kågedal