Re: Starting with BIST testing.

[NVS Abhilash]

Mike Miller-4 wrote
> On Tue, Oct 18, 2016 at 20:07:29 -0700, NVS Abhilash wrote:
>> Thanks Mike for your reply. Yes I have built Octave from source, by doing
>> hg
>> clone -> then mkdir .build -> cd .build -> make all -> make check
>> 
>> I also looked at other function test cases. I also read documentation
>> about
>> how and why test cases are written.
>> 
>> I also wrote some silly test cases for "isinteger". Then I have to
>> 'make',
>> again, then I ran test 
> <complete path to data.cc>
> .
>> (make process is too slow, do I have to always do 'make' before I can
>> test
>> my changes?) 
> 
> You don't need to rebuild if the only changes you are making are unit
> tests. If I were adding tests to isinteger, I would do
> 
>   vim ../libinterp/corefcn/data.cc  ## add tests
>   ./run-octave --eval "test ../libinterp/corefcn/data.cc"
> 
> If you want to submit tests to be committed, use hg commit, hg export,
> and post the patch to the patch tracker
> 
>   https://savannah.gnu.org/patch/?func=additem&group=octave
> 
> -- 
> mike

Hey Mike,

Thank you for your help.

I also wanna add, when I commit, it is also commits all my .build folder
stuff. Is it necessary?
Should I add .build folder to .hgignore file. Or it is what is suppose to
happen?

Thanks,
NVS Abhilash




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