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Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [RFC] Future goals for autotest and virtualization
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To: Ademar Reis <areis@redhat.com>
Cc: Lucas Meneghel Rodrigues <lmr@redhat.com>, QEMU devel <qemu-devel@nongnu.org>, Scott Zawalski <scottz@google.com>, Anthony Liguori <anthony@codemonkey.ws>, Cleber Rosa <crosa@redhat.com>, "kvm-autotest@redhat.com" <kvm-autotest@redhat.com>

Il 08/03/2012 18:59, Ademar Reis ha scritto:
> unit-test:
>     void main()
>     {
>         my_function();
>     }
> 
> integration test (or validation test):
>     void main()
>     {
>         exec("my-application");
>     }
> 
> But that's all semantics, not important for this discussion IMO.

We do have some "real" unit tests in QEMU, but because a large part of
it is not suitable to inclusion as a library, there's also something in
the middle for QEMU.

Both qtest and qemu-io-tests are in some sense integration tests because
they need working binaries (respectively qemu and qemu-io).  However,
the protocol spoken to the binary, and the kind of stimuli in the test
are designed to affect a particular function or module of QEMU; that
makes the tests more similar to a unit test, especially for qtest which
is written using gtest or PyUnit.

This is where we want to have most of test case growth in the
not-so-long term.

Paolo