Re: [gtk-vnc-devel] Regression tests

["Daniel P. Berrange" <berrange redhat com>]

On Tue, Jan 15, 2008 at 08:46:17AM -0600, Anthony Liguori wrote:
> Richard W.M. Jones wrote:
> > Have you ever discussed having regression tests for Gtk-VNC?  I've 
> > been able to provoke at least one segfault with a test program 
> > (program + patch coming up).  I wonder if we should keep such test 
> > programs around to test for regressions?
> 
> It's funny you post this now as last night I was just thinking about 
> this.  I was particularly interested in ensure we don't keep breaking 
> mixed endian support.
> 
> My thinking was to write a client and server in the same application.  
> Generate a fake frame buffer, then use every possible encoding to 
> transmit it to the client.  Then compare the client and server's version 
> of the frame buffer.

I don't think we'd need to go overboard to write it inside a single
process. If each scenario is a single execution, its easy enough to
fork a server process off for the test case and clean it up after.
Or just spawn a pthread, so its effectively a separate process, but
dies when the test case dies.

Dan.
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