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From: Brendan Higgins <brendanhiggins@google.com>
To: dan.j.williams@intel.com
Cc: Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>,
	Kees Cook <keescook@google.com>,
	mcgrof@kernel.org, shuah@kernel.org,
	Joel Stanley <joel@jms.id.au>,
	mpe@ellerman.id.au, joe@perches.com, brakmo@fb.com,
	rostedt@goodmis.org, Tim.Bird@sony.com, khilman@baylibre.com,
	Julia Lawall <julia.lawall@lip6.fr>,
	linux-kselftest@vger.kernel.org, kunit-dev@googlegroups.com,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	jdike@addtoit.com, richard@nod.at, linux-um@lists.infradead.org,
	linux-nvdimm@lists.01.org
Subject: Re: [RFC v1 00/31] kunit: Introducing KUnit, the Linux kernel unit testing framework
Date: Thu, 18 Oct 2018 23:27:34 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAFd5g46P8PuGH8B5B3mT=M1a4Lg7JTOdWJ8LECo8-i2a=fUZDA@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAA9_cmeRE3mPvxb3NciGFYjNu9aMFx4iTMeUq2fC3UtsyXky2A@mail.gmail.com>

On Wed, Oct 17, 2018 at 8:55 PM Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com> wrote:
<snip>
> > ## 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:
> > https://google.github.io/kunit-docs/third_party/kernel/docs/
>
> Nice! I've been using mocking techniques in kernel code for the
> libnvdimm test infrastructure in tools/testing/nvdimm/. It's part unit
> test infrastructure, part emulation, and I've always had the feeling
> it's all a bit too adhoc. I'm going to take a look and see what can be
> converted to kunit. Please include linux-nvdimm@lists.01.org on future
> postings.

Great to hear!

Interesting, is this kind of like the nfsim stuff?
>
> I'll shamelessly plug my lwn article about unit testing
> https://lwn.net/Articles/654071/ because it's always good to find
> fellow co-travelers to compare notes and advocate for more test
> oriented kernel development.

Most definitely! I will take a look, and be in touch.

Cheers!

      reply	other threads:[~2018-10-19  6:27 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 52+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2018-10-16 23:50 [RFC v1 00/31] kunit: Introducing KUnit, the Linux kernel unit testing framework Brendan Higgins
2018-10-16 23:50 ` [RFC v1 01/31] kunit: test: added string_stream a std::stream like string builder Brendan Higgins
2018-10-16 23:50 ` [RFC v1 02/31] kunit: test: adds KUnit test runner core Brendan Higgins
2018-10-16 23:50 ` [RFC v1 03/31] kunit: test: added test resource management API Brendan Higgins
2018-10-16 23:50 ` [RFC v1 04/31] kunit: test: added test_stream a std::stream like logger Brendan Higgins
2018-10-16 23:50 ` [RFC v1 05/31] kunit: test: added the concept of expectations Brendan Higgins
2018-10-16 23:50 ` [RFC v1 06/31] arch: um: enabled running kunit from User Mode Linux Brendan Higgins
2018-10-17 15:29   ` Kieran Bingham
2018-10-17 17:43     ` Brendan Higgins
2018-10-17 17:52     ` Tim.Bird
2018-10-17 21:09       ` Brendan Higgins
2018-10-17 21:18         ` Tim.Bird
2018-10-17 22:45           ` Brendan Higgins
2018-10-16 23:50 ` [RFC v1 07/31] kunit: test: added initial tests Brendan Higgins
2018-10-16 23:50 ` [RFC v1 08/31] arch: um: added shim to trap to allow installing a fault catcher for tests Brendan Higgins
2018-10-16 23:50 ` [RFC v1 09/31] kunit: test: added the concept of assertions Brendan Higgins
2018-10-16 23:50 ` [RFC v1 10/31] kunit: test: added concept of initcalls Brendan Higgins
2018-10-16 23:51 ` [RFC v1 11/31] kunit: test: added concept of post conditions Brendan Higgins
2018-10-16 23:51 ` [RFC v1 12/31] checkpatch: added support for struct MOCK(foo) syntax Brendan Higgins
2018-10-16 23:59   ` Joe Perches
2018-10-17  0:03     ` Brendan Higgins
2018-10-16 23:51 ` [RFC v1 13/31] kunit: mock: added parameter list minipulation macros Brendan Higgins
2018-10-16 23:51 ` [RFC v1 14/31] kunit: mock: added internal mock infrastructure Brendan Higgins
2018-10-16 23:51 ` [RFC v1 15/31] kunit: mock: added basic matchers and actions Brendan Higgins
2018-10-16 23:51 ` [RFC v1 16/31] kunit: mock: added class mocking support Brendan Higgins
2018-10-16 23:51 ` [RFC v1 17/31] kunit: mock: added struct param matcher Brendan Higgins
2018-10-16 23:51 ` [RFC v1 18/31] kunit: mock: added parameter formatters Brendan Higgins
2018-10-16 23:51 ` [RFC v1 19/31] kunit: mock: implemented nice, strict and naggy mock distinctions Brendan Higgins
2018-10-16 23:51 ` [RFC v1 20/31] kunit: mock: add ability to mock functions with void context Brendan Higgins
2018-10-16 23:51 ` [RFC v1 21/31] kunit: mock: added support for arbitrary function mocking Brendan Higgins
2018-10-16 23:51 ` [RFC v1 22/31] kunit: mock: add the concept of spyable functions Brendan Higgins
2018-10-17 22:46   ` Rob Herring
2018-10-18  1:32     ` Brendan Higgins
2018-10-16 23:51 ` [RFC v1 23/31] kunit: mock: add parameter capturers Brendan Higgins
2018-10-16 23:51 ` [RFC v1 24/31] kunit: improved sigsegv stack trace printing Brendan Higgins
2018-10-16 23:51 ` [RFC v1 25/31] kunit: added concept of platform mocking Brendan Higgins
2018-10-16 23:51 ` [RFC v1 26/31] arch: um: added stubs for mock iomem for KUnit Brendan Higgins
2018-10-17 22:28   ` Rob Herring
2018-10-18  1:14     ` Brendan Higgins
2018-10-16 23:51 ` [RFC v1 27/31] Documentation: kunit: adds complete documentation " Brendan Higgins
2018-10-16 23:51 ` [RFC v1 28/31] kunit: added Python libraries for handing KUnit config and kernel Brendan Higgins
2018-10-16 23:51 ` [RFC v1 29/31] kunit: added KUnit wrapper script and simple output parser Brendan Higgins
2018-10-16 23:51 ` [RFC v1 30/31] kunit.py: improved output from python wrapper Brendan Higgins
2018-10-16 23:51 ` [RFC v1 31/31] MAINTAINERS: add entry for KUnit the unit testing framework Brendan Higgins
2018-10-17  9:08 ` [RFC v1 00/31] kunit: Introducing KUnit, the Linux kernel " Daniel Vetter
2018-10-17 17:49 ` Tim.Bird
2018-10-17 22:22   ` Brendan Higgins
2018-10-17 20:43 ` Rob Herring
2018-10-17 23:12 ` Randy Dunlap
2018-10-18  2:05   ` Brendan Higgins
2018-10-18  3:55 ` Dan Williams
2018-10-19  6:27   ` Brendan Higgins [this message]

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