Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 25 Sep 2012 11:10:17 -0300 | From | Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <> | Subject | Re: perf tools regression testing was Re: [PATCH v3 1/9] perf hists: Move hists_init() from util/evsel.c to util/hist.c |
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Em Tue, Sep 25, 2012 at 10:47:48PM +0900, Namhyung Kim escreveu: > 2012-09-25 (화), 10:30 -0300, Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo: > > Em Tue, Sep 25, 2012 at 09:59:02PM +0900, Namhyung Kim escreveu: > > > Now I'm thinking of making it build-time test so that it can be executed > > > by make when specific argument is given - e.g. make C=1 ?
> > I think there is room for a 'make -C tools/perf check' that would use > > the 'expect' tool to do not just this but also run record, report, etc > > and check its output against what is expected, perf test is ok for > > checking the APIs, but we need a test suite for the actual builtins as > > called from the command line.
> Hmm.. we have 'make check' but running it ended up tons of macro > redefinition and unknown attribute warnings from sparse. :/
Ok, then 'make test', that would run 'perf test' + the expect like tests.
I'm trying to figure out if http://www.noah.org/python/pexpect/ is a better choice, that way we don't have to learn yet another scripting language.
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