Call for regression and performance testing - 8.0

[Robert Watson]

On Tue, 22 Sep 2009, Bruce Cran wrote:

>> Resurfacing after organising conferences, and discovered I had missed this 
>> e-mail. I'm not aware of any such efforts, and it would be really good to 
>> do. Making it easy to do "runtests" would vastly improve the ease of 
>> testing during the release process. Right now the output of the tests is 
>> fairly inconsistent, and this is probably to a large extent my fault. It 
>> would be nice to have a "test template" program that people can start with 
>> when writing new regression tests -- I know I would find that valuable.
>
> There's already a limited template available: src/tools/regression/README 
> specifies the format to use, and many of the regression tests do use it. You 
> can run all the tests which use the specified format by running "prove -r" 
> (after installing devel/p5-Test-Harness), but there are currently quite a 
> few failures.
>
> Some tests don't use the template for good reason - for example 
> src/tools/regression/redzone9 depends on the DEBUG_REDZONE kernel option to 
> be present.

However, others don't do it for a good reason -- perhaps mostly my tests? :-)

If people want to convert them over that would be excellent.

Robert