[Ssh-sftp-perl-users] Need help testing code!

[Dave R. <au...@ur...>]

So the big thing holding back changes to the code, including bug fixes,
error handling, etc., is that there is no good test suite currently.  The
current tests don't exercise even a fraction of the core code
(particularly the SSH2 bits, which make up the bulk of Net::SSH).

So I'm looking for ideas on this.  It's ok if the tests can only run on a
developer's machine, as long as they can run before making a release.  If
they could run on other machines reliably, that's a nice bonus ;)

I'm thinking that it could do something like this:

- Create a known file system layout (important for SFTP tests, obviously,
but also useful for SSH, I'd think)

- Start an SSH daemon on a high-numbered port, chrooted into that
filesystem.

- Do some tests

- Restart SSH daemon as needed with different options, config, etc.

Does that sound reasonable?

Help implementing or designing or anything would be greatly appreciated.
Once there's a test suite, I can start actually changing the code.


-dave

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