Exposing and catching bugs deep in the internals of alpm or pacman can be rather difficult with our current test suite, so I'd like to add a unit test suite. Here's the setup I've come up with so far: * Tests use the check framework [1] (it's in the repos) * Tests should include the source file (not the header) for whatever is being tested. This is necessary because it seems like most of the low hanging fruit (ie functions that don't interact with the user or filesystem) are static. * Test files must define a function "build_suite" that assembles their tests into a suite. * Test files are built as dynamic libraries which are automatically discovered and loaded by the test runner. Check organizes individual tests into suites and then cases and allows individual suites/cases to be selected with an environment variable. Right now my example setup has exactly one case per suite because that's easier, I'm thinking it would be better though to have one case per test so that individual functions can be tested separately. For instance, `CK_RUN_SUITE=util.c ./runner` would test everything in util.c, and `CK_RUN_CASE=util.c/_alpm_strip_newline ./runner` would test only that one function. I've included a test runner and a couple stub tests with a minimal Makefile as an example. With check installed, running `make check` in test/alpm/unit gives: $ make check ./runner Running suite(s): alpm alpm_list util.c 75%: Checks: 4, Failures: 1, Errors: 0 util_test.c:22:F:Core:check_alpm_strip_newline:0: Assertion 'output==expected' failed: output=="test", expected=="this will fail" make: *** [check] Error 1 [1] http://check.sourceforge.net/doc/check_html/index.html Andrew Gregory (1): add unit tests test/alpm/unit/Makefile | 16 +++++++++ test/alpm/unit/alpm_list_test.c | 76 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ test/alpm/unit/runner.c | 47 +++++++++++++++++++++++++ test/alpm/unit/util_test.c | 34 ++++++++++++++++++ 4 files changed, 173 insertions(+) create mode 100644 test/alpm/unit/Makefile create mode 100644 test/alpm/unit/alpm_list_test.c create mode 100644 test/alpm/unit/runner.c create mode 100644 test/alpm/unit/util_test.c -- 1.8.2.1