Re: [fetchmail-devel] fetchmail test harness

[Matthias A. <mat...@gm...>]

Martin Mrazik <mm...@su...> writes:

> On the official fetchmail website there is a short note about a test
> harness being run before each release.

It's essentially trying to mail some messages to test accounts and
trying to retrieve them. It's a python script accompanied by
confidential test account data. Unfortunately, most of the test sites
are dead, accounts removed, so it's mostly worthless.

I am manually using Josefsson's autobuild to run compile tests on the
SourceForge.net compile farm and am running the simplest of all tests,
"make check" which only runs t.smoke:

| #! /bin/sh
| 
| # This is a rudimentary tests to see if fetchmail can parse a trivial
| # configuration and dump it in human-readable and machine-readable form.
| 
| set -e
| trap 'rm -f t.rc.$$' 0
| cp "${srcdir}/t.rc" t.rc.$$
| chmod 0400 t.rc.$$
| ./fetchmail -V -f t.rc.$$ >/dev/null
| ./fetchmail --configdump -f t.rc.$$ >/dev/null

with this t.rc:

| skip mail.example.org

> Since I'm currently trying to automate some fetchmail tests I'm
> curious if this test harness is available somewhere. I would like to
> have a look and possibly add some tests (or maybe improve it).  Would
> it be possible?

The publicly accessible data is in the SVN repository, use

  svn co http://mknod.org/svn/fetchmail/branches/BRANCH_6-3 fetchmail-6-3

to check out, then see the "dist-tools/test/" directory.

-- 
Matthias Andree