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* [PATCH v15 00/18] kunit: introduce KUnit, the Linux kernel unit testing framework
@ 2019-08-24  1:34 Brendan Higgins
  2019-08-24  1:34 ` [PATCH v15 01/18] kunit: test: add KUnit test runner core Brendan Higgins
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From: Brendan Higgins @ 2019-08-24  1:34 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: frowand.list, gregkh, jpoimboe, keescook, kieran.bingham, mcgrof,
	peterz, robh, sboyd, shuah, tytso, yamada.masahiro
  Cc: devicetree, dri-devel, kunit-dev, linux-doc, linux-fsdevel,
	linux-kbuild, linux-kernel, linux-kselftest, linux-nvdimm,
	linux-um, Alexander.Levin, Tim.Bird, amir73il, dan.carpenter,
	daniel, jdike, joel, julia.lawall, khilman, knut.omang, logang,
	mpe, pmladek, rdunlap, richard, rientjes, rostedt, wfg,
	Brendan Higgins

## TL;DR

This revision addresses comments from Shuah by fixing a couple
checkpatch warnings and fixing some comment readability issues. No API
or major structual changes have been made since v13.

## Background

This patch set proposes KUnit, a lightweight unit testing and mocking
framework for the Linux kernel.

Unlike Autotest and kselftest, KUnit is a true unit testing framework;
it does not require installing the kernel on a test machine or in a VM
(however, KUnit still allows you to run tests on test machines or in VMs
if you want[1]) and does not require tests to be written in userspace
running on a host kernel. Additionally, KUnit is fast: From invocation
to completion KUnit can run several dozen tests in about a second.
Currently, the entire KUnit test suite for KUnit runs in under a second
from the initial invocation (build time excluded).

KUnit is heavily inspired by JUnit, Python's unittest.mock, and
Googletest/Googlemock for C++. KUnit provides facilities for defining
unit test cases, grouping related test cases into test suites, providing
common infrastructure for running tests, mocking, spying, and much more.

### What's so special about unit testing?

A unit test is supposed to test a single unit of code in isolation,
hence the name. There should be no dependencies outside the control of
the test; this means no external dependencies, which makes tests orders
of magnitudes faster. Likewise, since there are no external dependencies,
there are no hoops to jump through to run the tests. Additionally, this
makes unit tests deterministic: a failing unit test always indicates a
problem. Finally, because unit tests necessarily have finer granularity,
they are able to test all code paths easily solving the classic problem
of difficulty in exercising error handling code.

### Is KUnit trying to replace other testing frameworks for the kernel?

No. Most existing tests for the Linux kernel are end-to-end tests, which
have their place. A well tested system has lots of unit tests, a
reasonable number of integration tests, and some end-to-end tests. KUnit
is just trying to address the unit test space which is currently not
being addressed.

### More information on KUnit

There is a bunch of documentation near the end of this patch set that
describes how to use KUnit and best practices for writing unit tests.
For convenience I am hosting the compiled docs here[2].

Additionally for convenience, I have applied these patches to a
branch[3]. The repo may be cloned with:
git clone https://kunit.googlesource.com/linux
This patchset is on the kunit/rfc/v5.3/v15 branch.

## Changes Since Last Version

- Moved comment from inline in macro to kernel-doc to address checkpatch
  warning.
- Demoted BUG() to WARN_ON.
- Formatted some kernel-doc comments to make them more readible.

[1] https://google.github.io/kunit-docs/third_party/kernel/docs/usage.html#kunit-on-non-uml-architectures
[2] https://google.github.io/kunit-docs/third_party/kernel/docs/
[3] https://kunit.googlesource.com/linux/+/kunit/rfc/v5.3/v15

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2019-08-24  1:34 ` [PATCH v15 04/18] kunit: test: add assertion printing library Brendan Higgins
2019-08-24  1:34 ` [PATCH v15 05/18] kunit: test: add the concept of expectations Brendan Higgins
2019-08-24  1:34 ` [PATCH v15 06/18] kbuild: enable building KUnit Brendan Higgins
2019-08-24  1:34 ` [PATCH v15 07/18] kunit: test: add initial tests Brendan Higgins
2019-08-24  1:34 ` [PATCH v15 08/18] objtool: add kunit_try_catch_throw to the noreturn list Brendan Higgins
2019-08-24  1:34 ` [PATCH v15 09/18] kunit: test: add support for test abort Brendan Higgins
2019-08-24  1:34 ` [PATCH v15 10/18] kunit: test: add tests for kunit " Brendan Higgins
2019-08-24  1:34 ` [PATCH v15 11/18] kunit: test: add the concept of assertions Brendan Higgins
2019-08-24  1:34 ` [PATCH v15 12/18] kunit: test: add tests for KUnit managed resources Brendan Higgins
2019-08-24  1:34 ` [PATCH v15 13/18] kunit: tool: add Python wrappers for running KUnit tests Brendan Higgins
2019-08-24  1:34 ` [PATCH v15 14/18] kunit: defconfig: add defconfigs for building " Brendan Higgins
2019-08-24  1:34 ` [PATCH v15 15/18] Documentation: kunit: add documentation for KUnit Brendan Higgins
2019-08-24  1:34 ` [PATCH v15 16/18] MAINTAINERS: add entry for KUnit the unit testing framework Brendan Higgins
2019-08-24  1:34 ` [PATCH v15 17/18] kernel/sysctl-test: Add null pointer test for sysctl.c:proc_dointvec() Brendan Higgins
2019-08-24  1:34 ` [PATCH v15 18/18] MAINTAINERS: add proc sysctl KUnit test to PROC SYSCTL section Brendan Higgins
2019-08-24 17:29 ` [PATCH v15 00/18] kunit: introduce KUnit, the Linux kernel unit testing framework shuah

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