From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: <thomas.monjalon@6wind.com> Received: from mail-wm0-f47.google.com (mail-wm0-f47.google.com [74.125.82.47]) by dpdk.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 298A0214A for <dev@dpdk.org>; Tue, 2 Aug 2016 23:52:26 +0200 (CEST) Received: by mail-wm0-f47.google.com with SMTP id i5so309371482wmg.0 for <dev@dpdk.org>; Tue, 02 Aug 2016 14:52:26 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=6wind-com.20150623.gappssmtp.com; s=20150623; h=from:to:cc:subject:date:message-id:user-agent:in-reply-to :references:mime-version:content-transfer-encoding; bh=3e8/CTgJm8pSLix8aS+F+nNN4zP9bqaeMnI3PWkZ3TY=; b=Q1O9A3me42r+EY4+YVAOk2mYnzACPLa/Ht72mlTYiS9ZJP0frKgSd2vIjzpT7rWzgg w0nOlPwrGQb7IRXv6wH5QmcrWPWbVnr4X0D/fRRvLkMUXCJXO0HcO7kQN+9cKXb4Tvb/ zYmy8BqvjPbqrvN+FPB7mA7syXX2VnXAorcNvu9keLLBPbkSl71lsKCc9LBCYOx9WZmN zAJTbNtaT3Q4e0wb9QUFmr7SV4XOCLZcPbOvfIFLz3u8iOxZIzZbe7TO2qPXvBNMu33p gUOC3z46MuKTsI09+gGa7RJmHZsKxPvgUoEDUpFjGrccvgqTKY2wQJtFJqtm1UCtemRa fKow== X-Google-DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=1e100.net; s=20130820; h=x-gm-message-state:from:to:cc:subject:date:message-id:user-agent :in-reply-to:references:mime-version:content-transfer-encoding; bh=3e8/CTgJm8pSLix8aS+F+nNN4zP9bqaeMnI3PWkZ3TY=; b=V+wsDV5YmC/JJ/snMt+T5IvAPuViSqmJdz4uOvOo1pPy0ViJaOe7KAWiFkl69KztKm Z35kdBGKoJaYhb/dzi8koZ2sIMIAtIY1MRaYUC4ruIU/uAlFLG1ihh0oapQieE8835yD D30p0ratbR7V6hK91Luge6jxcKfaiOhYPDqsquKfty+9BuIBWm00V5XuCq3umtzYXkU9 jWl03g4dOBW5FOIYe9EHQCY60rfeWLtxng+1FHRUlev58+f0C4twNS5j1VEy0WN1QOD7 dHAYrdYp10bx5l2afpBWPz+FSoLP5F87l97vvJT+wye1SR9FXv/lcEyrJuRVTQgtDmEH Y1Vg== X-Gm-Message-State: AEkoouvNuOjf4Dm1MfMEVudvA6EhcqbBSWE8SzKb/YqaBR4GGbKcNnqdeufB6oKEUT+OYjCd X-Received: by 10.28.35.86 with SMTP id j83mr60628318wmj.18.1470174745864; Tue, 02 Aug 2016 14:52:25 -0700 (PDT) Received: from xps13.localnet (86.114.118.80.rev.sfr.net. [80.118.114.86]) by smtp.gmail.com with ESMTPSA id f4sm23869710wmf.8.2016.08.02.14.52.25 (version=TLS1_2 cipher=ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 bits=128/128); Tue, 02 Aug 2016 14:52:25 -0700 (PDT) From: Thomas Monjalon <thomas.monjalon@6wind.com> To: Declan Doherty <declan.doherty@intel.com> Cc: dev@dpdk.org Date: Tue, 02 Aug 2016 23:52:24 +0200 Message-ID: <5511822.hGlaykcsx3@xps13> User-Agent: KMail/4.14.10 (Linux/4.5.4-1-ARCH; KDE/4.14.11; x86_64; ; ) In-Reply-To: <1470170269-20721-1-git-send-email-declan.doherty@intel.com> References: <1470170269-20721-1-git-send-email-declan.doherty@intel.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7Bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Subject: Re: [dpdk-dev] [RFC 0/4] Use Google Test as DPDK unit test framework X-BeenThere: dev@dpdk.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.15 Precedence: list List-Id: patches and discussions about DPDK <dev.dpdk.org> List-Unsubscribe: <http://dpdk.org/ml/options/dev>, <mailto:dev-request@dpdk.org?subject=unsubscribe> List-Archive: <http://dpdk.org/ml/archives/dev/> List-Post: <mailto:dev@dpdk.org> List-Help: <mailto:dev-request@dpdk.org?subject=help> List-Subscribe: <http://dpdk.org/ml/listinfo/dev>, <mailto:dev-request@dpdk.org?subject=subscribe> X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 02 Aug 2016 21:52:26 -0000 2016-08-02 21:37, Declan Doherty: > I've been trying out using google test as a possible replacement for our unit > test framework and have put to together this series of patches with help from > Anatoly as RFC to get peoples thoughts on migrating to google test. Thanks for exploring new possibilities. > To facilitate google test this rfc patch set contains build system changes to > allow C++ to built within the DPDK framework, this intended for unit test code > only, and to support google test which is a C++ framework. Don't worry, I'm not > advocating making DPDK a C++ project :) You are not advocating but the unit test must be written in C++. I don't think it is a good idea to force people to write and maintain the tests in a different language than the code it tests. > Some of the major advantages of google test that I see over continuing to use the > current test include giving a consist feel to all tests, a powerful test > execution framework which allow individual test suites or tests to be specified > from the command line, support for a standard xunit output which can be integrated > into a continuous build systems, and a very powerful mocking library > which allows much more control over testing failure conditions. It would be interesting to better describe in details what is missing currently and what such a framework can bring. (I agree there is a huge room for improvements on unit tests)