From: John Johansen <john.johansen@canonical.com>
To: Iurii Zaikin <yzaikin@google.com>, Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Cc: Luis Chamberlain <mcgrof@kernel.org>,
Brendan Higgins <brendanhiggins@google.com>,
Alan Maguire <alan.maguire@oracle.com>,
Matthias Maennich <maennich@google.com>, shuah <shuah@kernel.org>,
jmorris@namei.org, serge@hallyn.com,
David Gow <davidgow@google.com>, Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>,
Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
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KUnit Development <kunit-dev@googlegroups.com>,
"open list:KERNEL SELFTEST FRAMEWORK"
<linux-kselftest@vger.kernel.org>,
Mike Salvatore <mike.salvatore@canonical.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH linux-kselftest/test v1] apparmor: add AppArmor KUnit tests for policy unpack
Date: Wed, 30 Oct 2019 18:40:03 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <81d04cb1-057d-10bd-1c40-80aa2c26fe62@canonical.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAAXuY3o31iCJwZ+WGHMaK1MgpC0qv=JkJWnzv8Lhym9TnZQvcQ@mail.gmail.com>
On 10/30/19 1:11 PM, Iurii Zaikin wrote:
>> Why can't unit tests live with the code they're testing? They're already
>> logically tied together; what's the harm there? This needn't be the case
>> for ALL tests, etc. The test driver could still live externally. The
>> test in the other .c would just have exported functions... ?
>>
> Curiously enough, this approach has been adopted by D 2.0 where unittests are
> members of the class under test: https://digitalmars.com/d/2.0/unittest.html
> but such approach is not mainstream.
> I personally like the idea of testing the lowest level bits in isolation even if
> they are not a part of any interface. I think that specifying the
> interface using
> unit tests and ensuring implementation correctness are complementary but
fwiw this is my preferred approach as well
> I haven't had much luck arguing this with our esteemed colleagues.
>
surprise, surprise /s
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2019-10-31 1:40 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 26+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2019-10-18 0:18 [PATCH linux-kselftest/test v1] apparmor: add AppArmor KUnit tests for policy unpack Brendan Higgins
2019-10-18 0:33 ` Iurii Zaikin
2019-10-30 18:59 ` Kees Cook
2019-11-06 0:35 ` Brendan Higgins
2019-11-06 0:37 ` Brendan Higgins
2019-10-18 0:43 ` Brendan Higgins
2019-10-18 16:25 ` Theodore Y. Ts'o
2019-10-18 21:41 ` Brendan Higgins
2019-10-30 19:02 ` Kees Cook
2019-10-31 9:01 ` Brendan Higgins
2019-10-18 12:29 ` Luis Chamberlain
2019-10-19 12:56 ` Alan Maguire
2019-10-19 18:36 ` Luis Chamberlain
2019-10-24 0:42 ` Brendan Higgins
2019-10-24 10:15 ` Luis Chamberlain
2019-10-30 19:09 ` Kees Cook
2019-10-30 20:11 ` Iurii Zaikin
2019-10-31 1:40 ` John Johansen [this message]
2019-10-31 9:33 ` Brendan Higgins
2019-10-31 18:40 ` Kees Cook
2019-11-05 16:43 ` Mike Salvatore
2019-11-05 23:59 ` Brendan Higgins
2019-10-31 1:37 ` John Johansen
2019-10-31 9:17 ` Brendan Higgins
2019-11-01 12:30 ` Alan Maguire
2019-11-05 23:44 ` Brendan Higgins
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