[GSOC17] Smoke testing of all base utilities - Week 3

[Ngie Cooper (yaneurabeya)]

> On Jun 20, 2017, at 10:45 AM, Shivansh Rai <shivansh at freebsd.org> wrote:
> 
> Hello all,
> 
> This is the progress update of week 3 -
> 
> Reported [1] and resolved [2] a bug in the implementation of ln(1),
> and added an appropriate test-case [3] for the same.
> 
> On the smoke-test tooling front, I have prepared a very basic implementation
> during last week [4]. The current implementation [5] produces a list of
> "option definitions" which were identified to be present in the options accepted
> by the utility under test (here ln(1)). Currently, ln(1) is used to simulate the
> operations. Once the tool is ready to produce tests, it can be automated for all
> the base utilities without test coverage.
> 
> The plan for this week is to add the functionality for generating tests.
> Hence by the end of this week, a basic tooling with ability to produce
> simple tests is supposed to be ready.
> 
> [1]: https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=219943 <https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=219943>
> [2]: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D11167 <https://reviews.freebsd.org/D11167>
> [3]: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D11159 <https://reviews.freebsd.org/D11159>
> [4]: https://github.com/shivrai/smoketestsuite/compare/c75665...d70e8e <https://github.com/shivrai/smoketestsuite/compare/c75665...d70e8e>
> [5]: https://github.com/shivrai/smoketestsuite/tree/master/tool <https://github.com/shivrai/smoketestsuite/tree/master/tool>
Hi Shivansh,
	I provided feedback for D11167.
Thanks!
-Ngie

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