From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Thomas Monjalon Subject: Re: [RFC 17.05] test: move tests to separate folder Date: Wed, 15 Feb 2017 10:03:30 +0100 Message-ID: <1900679.x5rhmsoBTz@xps13> References: <20170214151326.7554-1-ferruh.yigit@intel.com> <20170214154131.GA20524@bricha3-MOBL3.ger.corp.intel.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7Bit Cc: "Richardson, Bruce" , "Yigit, Ferruh" , dev@dpdk.org To: "Mcnamara, John" Return-path: Received: from mail-wr0-f182.google.com (mail-wr0-f182.google.com [209.85.128.182]) by dpdk.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E79639E7 for ; Wed, 15 Feb 2017 10:03:31 +0100 (CET) Received: by mail-wr0-f182.google.com with SMTP id k90so185873783wrc.3 for ; Wed, 15 Feb 2017 01:03:31 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: List-Id: DPDK patches and discussions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: dev-bounces@dpdk.org Sender: "dev" 2017-02-14 16:12, Mcnamara, John: > It is probably more important that the user runs the tests than just > compiles them. :-) As a side effect of running the tests they will > also compile them. > > As a side issue I think that we should improve the ease of running and > extending the test suite. YMMV but I have always found the test suite hard > to run with 100% passing tests. > > So I think this is a good first step to separate out unit testing from the > rest of the code. Yes we really need to work on the unit tests. Someone to run them and make it part of the distributed CI?