Re: Suggestion: tests: refactor tests to new init.sh-style shell scripts

[Jim Meyering]

On Sat, Apr 1, 2017 at 11:13 PM, Assaf Gordon <address@hidden> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> Attached an initial attempt to refactor the old sed tests and turn
> them into 'new style' shell-script tests.
> While the patch is big, it is very repetitive.
> Basically, every test that had TEST.sed,TEST.inp,TEST.good
> now has an additional TEST.sh which runs sed on the program
> and compares the output against the 'good' (=expected) output.
>
> It'll probably take few iterations to iron out all the issues,
> but this is the general direction.
>
> I also have a version where the sed/inp/good files are merged and embedded
> in the new SH file - this reduces the clutter and the number of files,
> at the expense of a bit more work during tests (e.g. creating the test files).
> Not sure if it's better or not.
>
> Comments welcomed,

Hi Assaf,

I've been (slowly) converting those old-style tests to the perl-based
form we use for some in coreutils. I much prefer to keep the sed
invocation, script, inputs and outputs near one another in the same
file, at least when they are not too large. What do you think?

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