Re: [Firebird-test] New deja-testsuite entry to play around with :-).

[John B. <bel...@cs...>]

Hi,

On Monday, August 13, 2001, at 10:11 PM, Mark O'Donohue wrote:

>
> Hi John
>
> I've commited the current test setup for the dejagnu test suite in 
> TCS/deja-testsuite,  mostly it;s the dejagnu tcs.exp file that John 
> wrote that parses the tcs database from flat files runs the tests adn 
> compares the output.
>
> If nothing else it should what you can do with a good scriping 
> language, (simulating tcs being a reasonably complex thing to do :-).

I was hoping it would provide a degree of backwards compatibility with 
new TCS tests released by Borland.  In the long run we should consider 
moving the tests outside the TCS framework for performance, 
maintainability, and ease of locating the bug.

> Mind you in Johns hands, I think if he put his mind to it, he's capable 
> of bending dos scripts round to doing it :-).
>

Uh oh, you want me to go and learn DOS scripting too?  :-)

>
> What I've done is gone for a two step process, extract current files to 
> flat files, (one step beyond the extract utlity) and then the run kit.
>
> Mostly it works on linux, and a fair chunk of it works on win32, I just 
> need to get the compiler flags etc set correctly to be able to run the 
> win32 compiled tests.

My original work was functioning on Darwin and I suspect Mark's 
modifications didn't break it much.

>
> It's all still experimental, and  but it does look pretty promising.

-John