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

[Shivansh Rai]

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
[2]: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D11167
[3]: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D11159
[4]: https://github.com/shivrai/smoketestsuite/compare/c75665...d70e8e
[5]: https://github.com/shivrai/smoketestsuite/tree/master/tool

Thank you.
With best regards,
Shivansh Rai