Re: orch(1) for tty testing

On Mon, Jan 15, 2024 at 12:55 PM Kyle Evans <kevans@freebsd.org> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I wrote a tool for tty testing w/ lua scripts, inspired by expect(1) and
> with some similarities, but explicitly without the goal of trying to be
> compatible:
>
> https://git.kevans.dev/kevans/orch
>
> An example of its use is here:
>
> https://git.kevans.dev/kevans/tty-tests/src/branch/main/test_canon.orch
>
> Each spawn() creates a new pts(4) and allows us to drive I/O to the
> process with write/match statements.  I have one or two tests written
> with it so far and the end result is, IMO, much less painful looking and
> less error prone than the equivalent in C.
>
> It still needs a bit of polish (e.g., improved diagnostics when a match
> fails), but I'd like to consider importing this somewhere for use in the
> near future for tty testing given how much it simplifies.  I can push it
> to ports, but we have a private liblua in base so it could be built and
> banished off into, e.g., /usr/tests/sys/kern/tty/, to make my life just
> a tad easier re: getting these to run in CI.  It's pretty lightweight;
> the orch binary on my amd64 system clocks in at ~27K, and orch.lua at 13K.
>
> Any objections to importing this new tool into /usr/tests or maybe even
> /usr/libexec?
>

Seems useful enough to include.  For more than just testing...

Warner