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From: Alexander Kanavin <alexander.kanavin@linux.intel.com>
To: "Burton, Ross" <ross.burton@intel.com>,
	Libertad Cruz <libertad.cruz@intel.com>
Cc: OE-core <openembedded-core@lists.openembedded.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH V3] dpky.py: Adds testcases for dpkg package manager
Date: Fri, 29 Sep 2017 14:36:24 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <32c6875f-c796-5eb3-a720-5b9145837680@linux.intel.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAJTo0LaLdMPpsypShHpxfdQRfBrxwgVSBUAFNS+mPKkohFVbDw@mail.gmail.com>

On 09/28/2017 04:28 PM, Burton, Ross wrote:
> On 27 September 2017 at 21:43, <libertad.cruz@intel.com 
> <mailto:libertad.cruz@intel.com>> wrote:
> 
>     From: libertad <libertad.cruz@intel.com
>     <mailto:libertad.cruz@intel.com>>
> 
>     Adds dpkg testcases for testing basic operation functionality for
>     the dpkg packgage manager.Adds new assert function to verify
>     expected results given by the dpkg package
> 
> 
> Basic functionality of a package manager is list packages, add packages, 
> remove packages.
> 
> Whereas the bulk of this this test verifies that four combinations of 
> --help or --version work, which isn't actually testing anything beyond 
> "is dpkg installed".
> 
> Can we just remove all of them?  I don't see the point in cluttering 
> testopia and the source with test cases that don't actually test anything.

Useful dpkg testcases could be modeled on, for instance, 
meta/lib/oeqa/runtime/cases/rpm.py.

Alex


  reply	other threads:[~2017-09-29 11:40 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-09-27 20:43 [PATCH V3] dpky.py: Adds testcases for dpkg package manager libertad.cruz
2017-09-27 21:00 ` ✗ patchtest: failure for dpky.py: Adds testcases for dpkg package manager (rev4) Patchwork
2017-09-28 13:28 ` [PATCH V3] dpky.py: Adds testcases for dpkg package manager Burton, Ross
2017-09-29 11:36   ` Alexander Kanavin [this message]
2017-09-29 12:45   ` Alexander Kanavin
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2017-09-27 20:04 libertad.cruz

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