[Libvir] Adding test suite for sexpr<->xml conversions

[Daniel P. Berrange]

On Thu, Aug 24, 2006 at 09:21:52AM -0400, Daniel Veillard wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 24, 2006 at 02:07:51PM +0100, Daniel P. Berrange wrote:
> > Quite a critical bit of the libvirt code is that which converts between
> > SEXPR and XML, and vica-verca. I've broken this code several times when
> > making changes, so it is way overdue to get some unit test coverage in
> > this area.
> > 
> > The attached patch adds such coverage - defining two tests xml2sexprtest
> > and sexpr2xmltest. The tests are pretty simple, in the tests/ directory
> > I just have a bunch of xml & sexpr files - one is the fixed input, the
> > other is the expected output. The test just runs the conversion and compares
> > the actual output with the expected output. Currently I've added two example
> > data files - one for paravirt & one for fully-virt. With this patch you
> > can run tests:
> > 
> > $ make check
> > make  check-TESTS
> > make[1]: Entering directory `/home/berrange/src/xen/libvirt/tests'
> > XML-2-SEXPR PV config                              ... OK
> > XML-2-SEXPR FV config                              ... OK
> > PASS: xml2sexprtest
> > SEXPR-2-XML PV config                              ... OK
> > SEXPR-2-XML FV config                              ... OK
> > PASS: sexpr2xmltest
> > ==================
> > All 2 tests passed
> > ==================
> > make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/berrange/src/xen/libvirt/tests'
> 
>   Excellent. Small suggestions:
>     - make tests/make check in the top level dir should also run it

Urm - automake already hooks things up so if you type 'make check' in the
top level, it runs 'make check' in all sub-directories. Why do we need to
manually duplicate this with a 'make test' target ?

>     - adding a 'make valgrind' target running the same with valgrind -quiet

Yes, good idea.

Dan.
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