Re: Testsuite reorganization, documentation, cleanup?

[Nathanael Nerode <neroden at doctormoo dot dyndns dot org>]

On Mon, Oct 07, 2002 at 02:58:17PM -0700, Stan Shebs wrote:
> Since most of the expect scripts run tests on *.c and suchlike (since
> 99% of the tests don't need special scripts), much of the organization
> is forced by the need to have all source files in a directory treated
> alike.

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> I don't like this level of subdivision very much.  It's needed for
> torture tests because they don't have any info internal to the file,
> but in general I think test instructions instructions for a file should
> be in the file, not implicit in some detail of its pathname.
Perhaps torture tests *should* have info internal to the file?

Perhaps we should simply discourage people from adding tests to the
torture suite because of this?

> Documentation standards for testsuite have been pretty lax.  More
> general description would be good, and if at some point, the doc has
> to say "this sounds stupid, but has to be this way for hysterical
> reasons", that's your clue that a reorg is desirable.

Thanks.  I'll use that as the standard!  :-)

--Nathanael