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* [PATCH v9 00/18] kunit: introduce KUnit, the Linux kernel unit testing framework
@ 2019-07-12  8:17 Brendan Higgins
  2019-07-12  8:17 ` [PATCH v9 01/18] kunit: test: add KUnit test runner core Brendan Higgins
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From: Brendan Higgins @ 2019-07-12  8:17 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, Michal Marek, Jonathan Corbet, Iurii Zaikin

## TL;DR

This new patch set only contains a very minor change to address a sparse
warning in the PROC SYSCTL KUnit test. Otherwise this patchset is
identical to the previous.

As I mentioned in the previous patchset, all patches now have acks and
reviews.

## 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/v5.2/v9 branch.

## Changes Since Last Version

Like I said in the TL;DR, there is only one minor change since the
previous revision. That change only affects patch 17/18; it addresses a
sparse warning in the PROC SYSCTL unit test.

Thanks to Masahiro for applying previous patches to a branch in his
kbuild tree and running sparse and other static analysis tools against
my patches.

[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/v5.2/v9

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2019-07-12  8:17 ` [PATCH v9 01/18] kunit: test: add KUnit test runner core Brendan Higgins
2019-07-15 20:10   ` Stephen Boyd
2019-07-15 21:25     ` Brendan Higgins
2019-07-12  8:17 ` [PATCH v9 02/18] kunit: test: add test resource management API Brendan Higgins
2019-07-15 20:24   ` Stephen Boyd
2019-07-15 20:30     ` Brendan Higgins
2019-07-15 20:51       ` Stephen Boyd
2019-07-12  8:17 ` [PATCH v9 03/18] kunit: test: add string_stream a std::stream like string builder Brendan Higgins
2019-07-15 20:43   ` Stephen Boyd
2019-07-15 21:11     ` Brendan Higgins
2019-07-15 22:04       ` Stephen Boyd
2019-07-15 22:11         ` Brendan Higgins
2019-07-15 22:43           ` Brendan Higgins
2019-07-16 15:33             ` Stephen Boyd
2019-07-16 18:55               ` Brendan Higgins
2019-07-12  8:17 ` [PATCH v9 04/18] kunit: test: add kunit_stream a std::stream like logger Brendan Higgins
2019-07-15 22:15   ` Stephen Boyd
2019-07-16  7:57     ` Brendan Higgins
2019-07-16  8:37       ` Brendan Higgins
2019-07-16 15:30         ` Stephen Boyd
2019-07-16 17:51           ` Brendan Higgins
2019-07-16 17:50         ` Stephen Boyd
2019-07-16 18:52           ` Brendan Higgins
2019-07-18 17:50             ` Stephen Boyd
2019-07-18 19:22               ` Brendan Higgins
2019-07-19  0:08                 ` Brendan Higgins
2019-07-22 18:10                   ` Brendan Higgins
2019-07-22 20:03                   ` Stephen Boyd
2019-07-22 22:30                     ` Brendan Higgins
2019-07-22 23:54                       ` Stephen Boyd
2019-07-23  0:32                         ` Brendan Higgins
2019-07-24  7:31                         ` Petr Mladek
2019-07-25 20:21                           ` Brendan Higgins
2019-07-26  8:31                             ` Petr Mladek
2019-08-01 18:55                               ` Brendan Higgins
2019-08-01 18:59                                 ` Brendan Higgins
2019-08-01 21:14                                   ` Stephen Boyd
2019-08-01 21:43                                     ` Brendan Higgins
2019-08-12 20:41                                       ` Brendan Higgins
2019-08-02  7:37                                 ` John Ogness
2019-08-12 21:12                                   ` Brendan Higgins
2019-07-12  8:17 ` [PATCH v9 05/18] kunit: test: add the concept of expectations Brendan Higgins
2019-07-12  8:17 ` [PATCH v9 06/18] kbuild: enable building KUnit Brendan Higgins
2019-07-15 20:49   ` Stephen Boyd
2019-07-12  8:17 ` [PATCH v9 07/18] kunit: test: add initial tests Brendan Higgins
2019-07-12  8:17 ` [PATCH v9 08/18] objtool: add kunit_try_catch_throw to the noreturn list Brendan Higgins
2019-07-12  8:17 ` [PATCH v9 09/18] kunit: test: add support for test abort Brendan Higgins
2019-07-12  8:17 ` [PATCH v9 10/18] kunit: test: add tests for kunit " Brendan Higgins
2019-07-12  8:17 ` [PATCH v9 11/18] kunit: test: add the concept of assertions Brendan Higgins
2019-07-12  8:17 ` [PATCH v9 12/18] kunit: test: add tests for KUnit managed resources Brendan Higgins
2019-07-12  8:17 ` [PATCH v9 13/18] kunit: tool: add Python wrappers for running KUnit tests Brendan Higgins
2019-07-12  8:17 ` [PATCH v9 14/18] kunit: defconfig: add defconfigs for building " Brendan Higgins
2019-07-12  8:17 ` [PATCH v9 15/18] Documentation: kunit: add documentation for KUnit Brendan Higgins
2019-07-12  8:17 ` [PATCH v9 16/18] MAINTAINERS: add entry for KUnit the unit testing framework Brendan Higgins
2019-07-12  8:17 ` [PATCH v9 17/18] kernel/sysctl-test: Add null pointer test for sysctl.c:proc_dointvec() Brendan Higgins
2019-07-12  8:17 ` [PATCH v9 18/18] MAINTAINERS: add proc sysctl KUnit test to PROC SYSCTL section Brendan Higgins

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