Re: test suite for parted ?

[Andrew Clausen]

Thomas Roelz wrote:
> 
> Hi all,
> 
> I'm currently using parted for resizing FAT partitions and I'd like
> to know if there is some kind of a test suite used by the parted
> developers. I think it is very tedious to create all the patholigical
> Windows installations one can think of again and again for testing
> purposes. So how is it tested?

We have a regression test suite, which is distributed with Parted.
It's in debug/test/*  It's quite small at the moment (~40 tests in
1.2.x), but, when I get time... (yet another thing on the massive
TODO).

To use it, modify debug/test/testrc, and run "debug/test/test" (from
that directory).  You can pass a parameter, and that will limit what
tests are run.  Eg:

        ./test fs               # only tests file systems
        ./test disk             # only tests disk labels
        ./test fat              # tests FAT only

etc.

It just greps for the first argument on that directory, looking for
a script to run ;-)

> BTW:  I'm asking this because I want to get a feeling about how
>       reliable parted is. I tested it for myself with different
>       configurations (and it performed very well) but I wonder if
>       there might be a systematic test.

Yep :-)

> BTW2: Erroneously I posted this also to address@hidden If it
>       should find its way to the list from there I'm sorry for
>       the double posting.

address@hidden should work.  The lists are a bit broken at the moment,
because the mailing list stuff is all being changed...

BTW: Parted will tend to have an assertion fail (and therefore, an
exception thrown to the user) before destroying a file system / disk
label.

Andrew Clausen