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From: Felipe Contreras <felipe.contreras@gmail.com>
To: Phillip Wood <phillip.wood123@gmail.com>,
	Calvin Wan <calvinwan@google.com>,
	git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH 1/2] Add C TAP harness
Date: Tue, 02 May 2023 09:54:54 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <6451324ed84e2_1ba2d29454@chronos.notmuch> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <afd3e80f-99d9-7472-36e7-335f86263d09@gmail.com>

Phillip Wood wrote:

> Unfortunately this library doesn't seem to offer any of those features. 
> It does support a lazy test plan but uses atexit() so will not detect if 
> the test program exits before all the tests have run.

I think there's a fundamental misunderstanding of how we use TAP.

If a program generates this output:

  1..3
  ok 1 - test 1
  ok 2 - test 2

That's clearly not complete. It shouldn't be the job a test script to check for
those cases.

If you run the programm through a TAP harness such as prove, you get:

  foo.t .. Failed 1/3 subtests 

  Test Summary Report
  -------------------
  foo.t (Wstat: 0 Tests: 2 Failed: 0)
    Parse errors: Bad plan.  You planned 3 tests but ran 2.
  Files=1, Tests=2,  0 wallclock secs ( 0.01 usr +  0.00 sys =  0.01 CPU)
  Result: FAIL

Why do we bother generaing a TAP output if we are not going to take advantage
of it?

-- 
Felipe Contreras

  parent reply	other threads:[~2023-05-02 15:55 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 29+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2023-04-27 17:50 [RFC PATCH 0/2] add an external testing library for unit tests Calvin Wan
2023-04-27 17:50 ` [RFC PATCH 1/2] Add C TAP harness Calvin Wan
2023-04-27 18:29   ` SZEDER Gábor
2023-04-27 18:38     ` Calvin Wan
2023-04-27 20:15   ` Phillip Wood
2023-04-28 16:31     ` Calvin Wan
2023-05-02 15:46       ` Felipe Contreras
2023-05-10 15:46       ` Phillip Wood
2023-05-11 23:16         ` Glen Choo
2023-05-18 10:04           ` Phillip Wood
2023-06-21 15:57         ` Linus Arver
2023-06-26 13:15           ` Phillip Wood
2023-06-28 21:17             ` Linus Arver
2023-06-29  5:52             ` Oswald Buddenhagen
2023-06-30  9:48               ` Phillip Wood
2023-05-02 15:54     ` Felipe Contreras [this message]
2023-05-02 16:39       ` Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2023-05-02 18:11         ` Felipe Contreras
2023-05-02 16:34     ` Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2023-05-10  8:18       ` Phillip Wood
2023-04-27 17:50 ` [RFC PATCH 2/2] unit test: add basic example Calvin Wan
2023-04-27 18:47   ` Junio C Hamano
2023-05-02 15:58     ` Felipe Contreras
2023-04-27 18:39 ` [RFC PATCH 0/2] add an external testing library for unit tests Junio C Hamano
2023-04-27 18:46   ` Calvin Wan
2023-04-27 21:35 ` brian m. carlson
2023-05-02  4:18 ` Felipe Contreras
2023-05-02 13:52 ` Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2023-05-02 15:28   ` Felipe Contreras

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