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From: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
To: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Cc: Feng Tang <feng.tang@intel.com>,
	mingo@elte.hu, a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl, andi@firstfloor.org,
	David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com>, Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: perf tools regression testing was Re: [PATCH v3 1/9] perf hists: Move hists_init() from util/evsel.c to util/hist.c
Date: Tue, 25 Sep 2012 11:10:17 -0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20120925141017.GD2892@infradead.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1348580868.1877.43.camel@leonhard>

Em Tue, Sep 25, 2012 at 10:47:48PM +0900, Namhyung Kim escreveu:
> 2012-09-25 (화), 10:30 -0300, Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo:
> > Em Tue, Sep 25, 2012 at 09:59:02PM +0900, Namhyung Kim escreveu:
> > > Now I'm thinking of making it build-time test so that it can be executed
> > > by make when specific argument is given - e.g. make C=1 ?

> > I think there is room for a 'make -C tools/perf check' that would use
> > the 'expect' tool to do not just this but also run record, report, etc
> > and check its output against what is expected, perf test is ok for
> > checking the APIs, but we need a test suite for the actual builtins as
> > called from the command line.

> Hmm.. we have 'make check' but running it ended up tons of macro
> redefinition and unknown attribute warnings from sparse. :/

Ok, then 'make test', that would run 'perf test' + the expect like
tests.

I'm trying to figure out if http://www.noah.org/python/pexpect/ is a
better choice, that way we don't have to learn yet another scripting
language.

- Arnaldo

  reply	other threads:[~2012-09-25 14:10 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 32+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-09-24 15:24 [PATCH v3 0/9] perf tools: Add script browser and runtime data file switch Feng Tang
2012-09-24 15:24 ` [PATCH v3 1/9] perf hists: Move hists_init() from util/evsel.c to util/hist.c Feng Tang
2012-09-24 16:02   ` Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
2012-09-25  1:25     ` Namhyung Kim
2012-09-25 11:05       ` Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
2012-09-25 12:59         ` Namhyung Kim
2012-09-25 13:30           ` perf tools regression testing was " Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
2012-09-25 13:47             ` Namhyung Kim
2012-09-25 14:10               ` Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo [this message]
2012-09-25  8:03     ` Feng Tang
2012-09-24 15:24 ` [PATCH v3 2/9] perf tool: Add a global variable "const char *input_name" Feng Tang
2012-09-24 15:24 ` [PATCH v3 3/9] perf script: Add more filter to find_scripts() Feng Tang
2012-09-25  1:47   ` Namhyung Kim
2012-09-26  8:56     ` Feng Tang
2012-09-27  4:45       ` Namhyung Kim
2012-09-27 10:39         ` Namhyung Kim
2012-09-24 15:24 ` [PATCH v3 4/9] perf ui/browser: Add a browser for perf script Feng Tang
2012-09-24 15:24 ` [PATCH v3 5/9] perf ui/browser: Integrate script browser into annotation browser Feng Tang
2012-09-24 15:24 ` [PATCH v3 6/9] perf ui/browser: Integrate script browser into main hists browser Feng Tang
2012-09-24 15:24 ` [PATCH v3 7/9] perf header: Add check_perf_magic() func Feng Tang
2012-09-24 16:01   ` Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
2012-09-25  2:07   ` Namhyung Kim
2012-09-25  8:21     ` Feng Tang
2012-09-25 11:22       ` Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
2012-09-24 15:24 ` [PATCH v3 8/9] perf hists browser: Add option for runtime switching perf data file Feng Tang
2012-09-25  2:11   ` Namhyung Kim
2012-09-25  8:20     ` Feng Tang
2012-09-25 11:17       ` Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
2012-09-26  7:57         ` Feng Tang
2012-09-27  4:02           ` Namhyung Kim
2012-09-27  5:43             ` Feng Tang
2012-09-24 15:24 ` [PATCH v3 9/9] perf report: Enable the runtime switching of " Feng Tang

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