GSoC Idea: Working on modernizing the tests of ATF

Anastasios Mag anastmag at gmail.com
Sat Mar 15 17:03:15 UTC 2014


Hi Julio, currently i have a problem installing kyua.
In installation instructions it guides me to run "./configure" but
configure files aren't executable.
What to do ?


On Sat, Mar 15, 2014 at 6:32 PM, dpl <tuchalia at gmail.com> wrote:

> I'm posting here in case some student sees this and want to create a
> proposal for this.
> I'm not finally going to write a proposal for this project. So, please, go
> ahead. :)
>
>
> 2014-03-13 3:01 GMT+01:00 Julio Merino <jmmv at freebsd.org>:
>
> > On Thu, Mar 13, 2014 at 7:10 AM, tuchalia <tuchalia at gmail.com> wrote:
> > > Hi there,
> > >
> > > I'm a student willing to do this work.
> > > I'm currently interested in a few projects, and I really like this one
> as
> > > well.
> > >
> > > Where should I start looking to write a strong proposal?
> >
> > Hello,
> >
> > You should start by looking at the information in the TestSuite wiki
> > page. Try to get familiar with the examples referenced from there:
> > look for the code, read it, try to do some edits, etc.
> >
> > Then you can also dive into the code in tools/regression/ and
> > tools/test/ to see what would need to be migrated. Here, you can use
> > the prove(1) tool to run the tests that end in .t, so you could give
> > that a try and see how that works as well.
> >
> > And, lastly, you can also look at the NetBSD source tree under the
> > src/tests/ directory[1] or at Garret's GitHub repository[2]. There are
> > many test programs there that can be easily made to run on FreeBSD.
> > Getting one of those, hooking it into the build and preparing a patch
> > for that would be a nice exercise.
> >
> > Hope this helps.
> >
> > 1: http://cvsweb.netbsd.org/bsdweb.cgi/src/tests/?only_with_tag=MAIN
> > 2: https://github.com/yaneurabeya/freebsd
> >
>
>
>
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> Daniel
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