[Help-bash] question about bash tests folder (test cases)

[Nouroz Borazjany, Mehra]

Hi

My name is Mehra and I am PhD student at UTA. My research is about testing and I picked bash as one of my subjects.

I noticed that there is a folder in the bash source file directory , call tests, my question is how your developer team come up with these test cases. Are these tests have a specific target? are you testing specific functionality? 

I run the test cases for version version 2.01.0(34)-release  , and measure the code coverage of the source code with gcov and I got 70% function coverage.

The reason I am asking is I have to perform black box testing using my own methodology and I need to get code coverage as much as possible. and also since the bash is very big with lots of functionality, I need to be selective and only test some of the functionalists of the system therefore I wanted to compare my test cases with what you have provided based on its code coverage. but I need to know how you generated your test cases to see if I can compare them or not!

Thank you so much

Mehra