memcached QA

Brad Fitzpatrick brad at danga.com
Thu Jun 19 19:58:49 UTC 2008


I wrote the original tests in Perl because it was quick, I knew Perl, and
there weren't any new dependencies.

But if we want to include libmemcache with memcached (at least for testing),
we could just as well write the tests in C too.  *shrug*


On Thu, Jun 19, 2008 at 8:50 AM, dormando <dormando at rydia.net> wrote:

> Hey,
>
> Well the perl tests that come with memcached are *official* so far as I'm
> concerned. Historically the tests were perl, we've tried to maintain them as
> perl, and I'm a little confused as to where we are right now.
>
> Since most of the developers on this project hate each others' primary
> languages (but we share C in common), we now have test suites in all sorts
> of crazy languages that live inside/outside of the tree. The libmemcached C
> tests are pretty good, there're java tests that trond has, python tests
> dustin has, and I try to port tests to perl. Tomash has been writing perl
> tests as well.
>
> I'd prefer we keep everything to one language so the deps just to buildtest
> memcached aren't too wild... I was volunteering to port all tests to perl
> (and have been updating the binary tree tests, etc), but I've been under a
> rock for the last few months so this might not be plausible anymore.
>
> In my humble; the distro _must_ have a 'make test' that tests memcahced to
> the best of our ability. Tests should be updated, new features should have
> tests, blah blah blah.
>
> Anyone else have thoughts on the matter?
> -Dormando
>
>
> Victor Kirkebo wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>> I see a lot of activity and work being done on the code base; bugs being
>> fixed and new features added etc. There is a handful of small tests that
>> come with memcached that is useful for sanity testing of memcached. People
>> are also writing their own tests and doing their own testing before features
>> are added and new versions released; I'm not sure how visible or easily
>> shared this work is. I'd like to know if anybody has any thoughts or wishes
>> on this matter?
>>
>> -Victor
>>
>
>
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