From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.2 (2018-09-13) on archive.lwn.net X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-13.3 required=5.0 tests=DKIMWL_WL_MED,DKIM_SIGNED, DKIM_VALID,DKIM_VALID_AU,HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS, MAILING_LIST_MULTI,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_HI,SPF_HELO_NONE,SPF_NONE, USER_IN_DEF_DKIM_WL autolearn=unavailable autolearn_force=no version=3.4.2 Received: from vger.kernel.org (vger.kernel.org [209.132.180.67]) by archive.lwn.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id D2C4D7D910 for ; Tue, 20 Aug 2019 23:20:57 +0000 (UTC) Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1726482AbfHTXUz (ORCPT ); Tue, 20 Aug 2019 19:20:55 -0400 Received: from mail-vk1-f202.google.com ([209.85.221.202]:50828 "EHLO mail-vk1-f202.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1726424AbfHTXUy (ORCPT ); Tue, 20 Aug 2019 19:20:54 -0400 Received: by mail-vk1-f202.google.com with SMTP id s80so214176vkb.17 for ; Tue, 20 Aug 2019 16:20:54 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=google.com; s=20161025; h=date:message-id:mime-version:subject:from:to:cc; bh=d/yRotIqofKL6ivNLT0spFL8C+ImKotVaARxIwjjT6U=; b=AVw2bVu+4NwiDCTMe7ctCvAsytyWg/rXh1qSlFIYcZ34MZ2W4zFBX61usfUDXKDI+U 6mkzeHkKvCm3jsXc7ellvdvzMZ/yYq5pQYIgEJEeej2GmzjldUwbhas7sVL0y1BF9R5Q aeLd89FDK15SPfbl+SuyrbqBs3o2uiag6LIW+dn6YgaIXzRVfITYu/qa+PVnh2pu0la1 EgwkQGeMgeft4WVs3y+cr1sGSCDFeF0e6bPs6wefJLtZGnA3fREotyJnv1WY33ED8Kos PZta1YwDrJCXLZftQ0jdf7GzZQX+uUMqkEw7bGquy+vwd3aApIC+kCto7n+WJu4zEbsw +lOA== X-Google-DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=1e100.net; s=20161025; h=x-gm-message-state:date:message-id:mime-version:subject:from:to:cc; bh=d/yRotIqofKL6ivNLT0spFL8C+ImKotVaARxIwjjT6U=; b=KGZt9NTws2ZI44H4kkJpIhLmLbwj59RWk7uiI05MZlPbLept5LbjdRnu01Mz/TyzbG G9n9Q9uyb/Ja1enxuNO5gvSWl5bC8Bv9rN7pcc0fiFzgSNrsYcvaupd/iPVDS8KJlZen k4co2SjZJZOiCyyP8b7kA5t8va64rhiDDUp6cvKOTbiqdCgVgDpGIj0ygphwUITiG1YF nt8wCRIHsyMr5ToqeXAI6xBxhDVufK1I1fbvvlw2Bg5Kv4jr+gBgAUfVJVVDePY0GYZL /9BGWKXulhQ4xy0IKjydBg6OmlQIU8o/P8RYXiTH8NSl3Ns3nrZ0i4GoYD3pdR1E9dzL DcmA== X-Gm-Message-State: APjAAAV/5buvasoXFDzoSNLenCziBFgjB54Kd27lv50SzYSkV0a2Kk3o Vok8xgl5q88F7xTHK6vtg9TthLq1LHQ9HHkx7+5W7Q== X-Google-Smtp-Source: APXvYqxI/nPId+DHfk6D741GOqFrVhdMCpaqnV+6xqhMReBcYshk3sm1bvTSqco2NKWiElhS3+UgytqYYzLVwPw9MVYXZA== X-Received: by 2002:a67:2605:: with SMTP id m5mr19353609vsm.120.1566343253112; Tue, 20 Aug 2019 16:20:53 -0700 (PDT) Date: Tue, 20 Aug 2019 16:20:28 -0700 Message-Id: <20190820232046.50175-1-brendanhiggins@google.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: git-send-email 2.23.0.rc1.153.gdeed80330f-goog Subject: [PATCH v14 00/18] kunit: introduce KUnit, the Linux kernel unit testing framework From: Brendan Higgins To: frowand.list@gmail.com, gregkh@linuxfoundation.org, jpoimboe@redhat.com, keescook@google.com, kieran.bingham@ideasonboard.com, mcgrof@kernel.org, peterz@infradead.org, robh@kernel.org, sboyd@kernel.org, shuah@kernel.org, tytso@mit.edu, yamada.masahiro@socionext.com Cc: devicetree@vger.kernel.org, dri-devel@lists.freedesktop.org, kunit-dev@googlegroups.com, linux-doc@vger.kernel.org, linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, linux-kbuild@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-kselftest@vger.kernel.org, linux-nvdimm@lists.01.org, linux-um@lists.infradead.org, Alexander.Levin@microsoft.com, Tim.Bird@sony.com, amir73il@gmail.com, dan.carpenter@oracle.com, daniel@ffwll.ch, jdike@addtoit.com, joel@jms.id.au, julia.lawall@lip6.fr, khilman@baylibre.com, knut.omang@oracle.com, logang@deltatee.com, mpe@ellerman.id.au, pmladek@suse.com, rdunlap@infradead.org, richard@nod.at, rientjes@google.com, rostedt@goodmis.org, wfg@linux.intel.com, Brendan Higgins , Bjorn Helgaas Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Sender: linux-doc-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-doc@vger.kernel.org ## TL;DR This revision addresses comments from Shuah by removing two macros that were causing checkpatch errors. No API or major structual changes have been made since v13. ## Background This patch set proposes KUnit, a lightweight unit testing and mocking framework for the Linux kernel. Unlike Autotest and kselftest, KUnit is a true unit testing framework; it does not require installing the kernel on a test machine or in a VM (however, KUnit still allows you to run tests on test machines or in VMs if you want[1]) and does not require tests to be written in userspace running on a host kernel. Additionally, KUnit is fast: From invocation to completion KUnit can run several dozen tests in about a second. Currently, the entire KUnit test suite for KUnit runs in under a second from the initial invocation (build time excluded). KUnit is heavily inspired by JUnit, Python's unittest.mock, and Googletest/Googlemock for C++. KUnit provides facilities for defining unit test cases, grouping related test cases into test suites, providing common infrastructure for running tests, mocking, spying, and much more. ### What's so special about unit testing? A unit test is supposed to test a single unit of code in isolation, hence the name. There should be no dependencies outside the control of the test; this means no external dependencies, which makes tests orders of magnitudes faster. Likewise, since there are no external dependencies, there are no hoops to jump through to run the tests. Additionally, this makes unit tests deterministic: a failing unit test always indicates a problem. Finally, because unit tests necessarily have finer granularity, they are able to test all code paths easily solving the classic problem of difficulty in exercising error handling code. ### Is KUnit trying to replace other testing frameworks for the kernel? No. Most existing tests for the Linux kernel are end-to-end tests, which have their place. A well tested system has lots of unit tests, a reasonable number of integration tests, and some end-to-end tests. KUnit is just trying to address the unit test space which is currently not being addressed. ### More information on KUnit There is a bunch of documentation near the end of this patch set that describes how to use KUnit and best practices for writing unit tests. For convenience I am hosting the compiled docs here[2]. Additionally for convenience, I have applied these patches to a branch[3]. The repo may be cloned with: git clone https://kunit.googlesource.com/linux This patchset is on the kunit/rfc/v5.3/v14 branch. ## Changes Since Last Version - Removed to macros which helped define expectation and assertion macros; these values are now just copied and pasted. Change was made to fix checkpatch error, as suggested by Shuah. [1] https://google.github.io/kunit-docs/third_party/kernel/docs/usage.html#kunit-on-non-uml-architectures [2] https://google.github.io/kunit-docs/third_party/kernel/docs/ [3] https://kunit.googlesource.com/linux/+/kunit/rfc/v5.3/v14 -- 2.23.0.rc1.153.gdeed80330f-goog