Re: [Gluster-devel] GlusterFS unit test framework

[Justin Clift]

On 06/03/2014, at 9:01 PM, Luis Pabon wrote:
> Hi all,
>    The patch is now live in GlusterFS.  This patch will allow you to write 
> unit tests for your new patches or if you want, you can start writing unit 
> tests for older code.  Writing unit tests for older code is a great way to 
> learn the code (which I will be doing :-)).  I have also created a 
> presentation to help explain what unit tests are:
> 
> http://slides-lpabon.rhcloud.com/feb24_glusterfs_unittest.html#/
> 
> The framework will also help in situations where developers are depending on 
> APIs from other contributors.  In this situation, the developer can write 
> their patch and test their code by mocking any APIs their code is dependent 
> on.  This method allows for parallel development without the need to wait for 
> the APIs to be available.


It turns out this patch is breaking the build on EL5. :(

Looking through the docs on your cmockery2 GitHub repo, it's
hard to tell which platforms are supported.  Should it work
on EL5? :)

Regards and best wishes,

Justin Clift

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