From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
To: Linus Arver <linusa@google.com>
Cc: Josh Steadmon <steadmon@google.com>,
git@vger.kernel.org, calvinwan@gmail.com, szeder.dev@gmail.com,
phillip.wood123@gmail.com, chooglen@google.com, avarab@gmail.com,
sandals@crustytoothpaste.net
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH v3 1/1] unit tests: Add a project plan document
Date: Thu, 29 Jun 2023 14:21:37 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <xmqqedlu7yn2.fsf@gitster.g> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <owlybkgy837j.fsf@fine.c.googlers.com> (Linus Arver's message of "Thu, 29 Jun 2023 12:42:56 -0700")
Linus Arver <linusa@google.com> writes:
>> ...
>> +https://github.com/ThrowTheSwitch/Unity[Unity],?,?,?,?,?,?,?,?,?,?,?,?
>> +https://github.com/siu/minunit[minunit],?,?,?,?,?,?,?,?,?,?,?,?
>> +https://cunit.sourceforge.net/[CUnit],?,?,?,?,?,?,?,?,?,?,?,?
>> +https://www.kindahl.net/mytap/doc/index.html[MyTAP],[lime-background]#True#,?,?,?,?,?,?,?,?,?,?,?
>> +|=====
>
> This table is a little hard to read. Do you have your patch on GitHub or
> somewhere else where this table is rendered with HTML?
Great suggestion (veiled in a question).
> It would help to explain each of the answers that are filled in
> with the word "Partial", to better understand why it is the case. I
> suspect this might get a little verbose, in which case I suggest just
> giving each framework its own heading.
>
> The column names here are slightly different from the headings used
> under "Desired features"; I suggest making them the same.
>
> Also, how about grouping some of these together? For example "Diagnostic
> output" and "Coverage reports" feel like they could be grouped under
> "Output formats". Here's one way to group these:
>
> 1. Output formats
>
> TAP support
> Diagnostic output
> Coverage reports
>
> 2. Cost of adoption
>
> Vendorable / ubiquitous
> Maintainable / extensible
> Major platform support
>
> 3. Performance flexibility
>
> Parallel execution
> Lazy test planning
> Runtime-skippable tests
> Scheduling / re-running
>
> 4. Developer experience
>
> Mocks
> Signal & exception handling
>
> I can think of some other metrics to add to the comparison, namely:
>
> 1. Age (how old is the framework)
> 2. Size in KLOC (thousands of lines of code)
> 3. Adoption rate (which notable C projects already use this framework?)
> 4. Project health (how active are its developers?)
>
> I think for 3 and 4, we could probably mine some data out of GitHub
> itself.
Great additions (if we are mere users do we care much about #2,
though?).
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2023-06-29 21:21 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 32+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2023-05-17 23:56 [PATCH RFC v2 0/4] Add an external testing library for unit tests steadmon
2023-05-17 23:56 ` [PATCH RFC v2 1/4] common-main: split common_exit() into a new file steadmon
2023-05-18 17:17 ` Junio C Hamano
2023-07-14 23:38 ` Splitting common-main (Was: Re: [PATCH RFC v2 1/4] common-main: split common_exit() into a new file) Josh Steadmon
2023-07-15 0:34 ` Splitting common-main Junio C Hamano
2023-08-14 13:09 ` Splitting common-main (Was: Re: [PATCH RFC v2 1/4] common-main: split common_exit() into a new file) Jeff Hostetler
2023-05-17 23:56 ` [PATCH RFC v2 2/4] unit tests: Add a project plan document steadmon
2023-05-18 13:13 ` Phillip Wood
2023-05-18 20:15 ` Glen Choo
2023-05-24 17:40 ` Josh Steadmon
2023-06-01 9:19 ` Phillip Wood
2023-05-17 23:56 ` [PATCH RFC v2 3/4] Add C TAP harness steadmon
2023-05-18 13:15 ` Phillip Wood
2023-05-18 20:50 ` Josh Steadmon
2023-05-17 23:56 ` [PATCH RFC v2 4/4] unit test: add basic example and build rules steadmon
2023-05-18 13:32 ` Phillip Wood
2023-06-09 23:25 ` [RFC PATCH v3 0/1] Add a project document for adding unit tests Josh Steadmon
2023-06-09 23:25 ` [RFC PATCH v3 1/1] unit tests: Add a project plan document Josh Steadmon
2023-06-13 22:30 ` Junio C Hamano
2023-06-30 22:18 ` Josh Steadmon
2023-06-29 19:42 ` Linus Arver
2023-06-29 20:48 ` Josh Steadmon
2023-06-30 19:31 ` Linus Arver
2023-07-06 18:24 ` Glen Choo
2023-07-06 19:02 ` Junio C Hamano
2023-07-06 22:48 ` Glen Choo
2023-06-30 21:33 ` Josh Steadmon
2023-06-29 21:21 ` Junio C Hamano [this message]
2023-06-30 0:11 ` Linus Arver
2023-06-30 14:07 ` Phillip Wood
2023-06-30 18:47 ` K Wan
2023-06-30 22:35 ` Josh Steadmon
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