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From: "Mcnamara, John" <john.mcnamara@intel.com>
To: "Richardson, Bruce" <bruce.richardson@intel.com>,
	"Yigit, Ferruh" <ferruh.yigit@intel.com>
Cc: Thomas Monjalon <thomas.monjalon@6wind.com>,
	"dev@dpdk.org" <dev@dpdk.org>
Subject: Re: [dpdk-dev] [RFC 17.05] test: move tests to separate folder
Date: Tue, 14 Feb 2017 16:12:51 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <B27915DBBA3421428155699D51E4CFE2026CC200@IRSMSX103.ger.corp.intel.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20170214154131.GA20524@bricha3-MOBL3.ger.corp.intel.com>



> -----Original Message-----
> From: dev [mailto:dev-bounces@dpdk.org] On Behalf Of Bruce Richardson
> Sent: Tuesday, February 14, 2017 3:42 PM
> To: Yigit, Ferruh <ferruh.yigit@intel.com>
> Cc: Thomas Monjalon <thomas.monjalon@6wind.com>; dev@dpdk.org
> Subject: Re: [dpdk-dev] [RFC 17.05] test: move tests to separate folder
> 
> On Tue, Feb 14, 2017 at 03:13:26PM +0000, Ferruh Yigit wrote:
> > Tests are part of app folder and compiled with library every time.
> > Moving tests into a "test" folder which won't be compiled by default.
> > To compile tests, need to give explicit "make test" command.
> >
> > "make test" was previously used to run tests, which renamed to "make
> > test_run" with this patch.
> >
> > This makes default compilation ~30% faster,
> > [clang, make -j8, old]: real    1m04.355s
> > [clang, make -j8, new]: real    0m41.740s
> >
> > For new case, test needs to built separately, which takes,
> > [clang, make -j8 test]: real    0m24.293s
> >
> > The point is tests are not required always and by every one.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Ferruh Yigit <ferruh.yigit@intel.com>
> > ---
> 
> Hi Ferruh,
> 
> I'm not sure I'm convinced by this, as I think there are advantages to
> having the test code always compiled. Anything that is not compiled in
> DPDK by default is more likely to be broken by patch submissions. The
> speed boost to build is nice, but I'm not sure it's worth it.
> However, I'm open to being convinced otherwise on this...

Hi,

In general, I am in favour of separating the main compilation from
the compilation of the tests. Usually unit test code doesn't get
compiled until you run "make test". Also, having the "test" code
in the "app" dir is a little odd.


> Anything that is not compiled in
> DPDK by default is more likely to be broken by patch submissions.

It is probably more important that the user runs the tests than just
compiles them. :-) As a side effect of running the tests they will
also compile them.

As a side issue I think that we should improve the ease of running and
extending the test suite. YMMV but I have always found the test suite hard
to run with 100% passing tests.

So I think this is a good first step to separate out unit testing from the
rest of the code.

John

  parent reply	other threads:[~2017-02-14 16:12 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 34+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-02-14 15:13 Ferruh Yigit
2017-02-14 15:41 ` Bruce Richardson
2017-02-14 15:51   ` Wiles, Keith
2017-02-14 16:12   ` Mcnamara, John [this message]
2017-02-15  9:03     ` Thomas Monjalon
2017-02-14 17:07   ` Ferruh Yigit
2017-02-14 17:30     ` Richardson, Bruce
2017-02-15  2:11       ` Yuanhan Liu
2017-02-15 10:06         ` Ferruh Yigit
2017-02-15 11:16           ` Thomas Monjalon
2017-02-15 11:28             ` Ferruh Yigit
2017-02-14 16:15 ` Mcnamara, John
2017-02-15 15:26 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH 1/4] " Ferruh Yigit
2017-02-15 15:26   ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH 2/4] mk: do not build tests by default Ferruh Yigit
2017-02-15 16:58     ` Thomas Monjalon
2017-02-15 17:30       ` Ferruh Yigit
2017-02-16  8:53         ` Thomas Monjalon
2017-02-16 10:07           ` Ferruh Yigit
2017-02-15 15:26   ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH 3/4] mk: add new test-run make rule Ferruh Yigit
2017-02-15 17:07     ` Bruce Richardson
2017-02-15 17:41       ` Ferruh Yigit
2017-02-16  9:08         ` Bruce Richardson
2017-02-16  9:26     ` Thomas Monjalon
2017-02-16 10:21       ` Ferruh Yigit
2017-02-16 10:44         ` Thomas Monjalon
2017-02-15 15:26   ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH 4/4] mk: rename test related make rules Ferruh Yigit
2017-02-16  9:10   ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH 1/4] test: move tests to separate folder Bruce Richardson
2017-02-16 14:57   ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v2 1/5] " Ferruh Yigit
2017-02-16 14:57     ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v2 2/5] mk: do not build tests by default Ferruh Yigit
2017-02-16 14:57     ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v2 3/5] mk: add new test-basic make rule Ferruh Yigit
2017-02-16 14:57     ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v2 4/5] mk: rename test related make rules Ferruh Yigit
2017-02-16 14:57     ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v2 5/5] doc: document test related make rules in make help Ferruh Yigit
2017-02-20 15:23       ` Mcnamara, John
2017-02-28 15:19     ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v2 1/5] test: move tests to separate folder Thomas Monjalon

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