[dmd-internals] dmd test suite

[Brad Roberts]

Queue the week of useless bike-shedding and diversions into general testing and
unit testing.

This test suite is of interest pretty much only to the set of people who are
actually working on dmd, which pretty much consists of subscribers to this list.

On 6/13/2010 8:09 PM, Jason House wrote:
> I just posted to digitalmars.D about this. I'm sure this will be of
> general interest. Some wish for an accurate spec. Others want to write
> their own frontends/backends. I'm hoping some of them will help mature
> the test suite.
> 
> Sent from my iPhone
> 
> On Jun 13, 2010, at 5:30 AM, Brad Roberts <braddr at puremagic.com> wrote:
> 
>> I've just checked in the skeleton of a test suite for us to discuss and
>> hopefully start adding to rather than continuing to expand the
>> non-distributable
>> one.
>>
>> I've only tested it on linux, but it should work for any posix system
>> that has
>> bash, grep, and gnu make installed.  There's a reasonable chance it'd
>> even work
>> on windows under cygwin, but I haven't tried it.
>>
>> There's a short documentation blurb at the top of the makefile.  I've
>> only
>> copied two tests from the existing test suite over as a demonstration
>> of the
>> usage.  Both are so basic enough that I expect that they're safe to
>> make public.
>>
>> Parallelism works with standard make arguments, namely -j and -l.
>>
>> It also includes enough logic to resume interrupted tests by just
>> re-running
>> make without running 'make clean'.  Additionally, if the dmd binary is
>> updated,
>> that's sufficient to invalidate and force a re-run of each test.
>>
>> Current output:
>>
>> $ make clean
>> Removing output directory: test_results
>> $ make -j2
>> Creating output directory: test_results
>> Building combinations tool
>> Running runnable tests
>> ... runnable/hello.d  required:  -d    permuted args:
>> ... runnable/mars1.d  required:        permuted args: -inline -release
>> -gc -O
>> -unittest -fPIC
>>
>> Feedback appreciated.
>>
>> Later,
>> Brad
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