DBus testsuite

[Jean Parpaillon]

Hi,

Le mercredi 04 février 2015 à 16:21 +0000, Simon McVittie a écrit :
> On 04/02/15 15:25, Jean Parpaillon wrote:
> > I am currently working on a pure erlang implementation of DBus.
> ...
> > Is there any DBus testsuite for that purpose ?
> 
> Matthew Johnson's "cross test" 
> <http://cgit.freedesktop.org/dbus/dbus-test/> is an interop test 
> framework. It's designed to pair up client and server implementations. 
> It hasn't been touched for 7 years, so it's anyone's guess whether it 
> works, is complete, or reflects current best-practices... but it might 
> be a good starting point.
> 
> dbus-python has implementations of both the client and server ends of 
> the cross-test. I think dbus-java probably does too (it's by the same 
> author as the cross-test).
> 

Ok, thank you for the links. I will have a look at it.

>  > I've seen a test
> > directory in dbus repository, but it is difficult to sort out tests...
> 
> Those are more like regression and integration tests for the other 
> software in dbus.git: libdbus, the reference C library, and dbus-daemon, 
> the reference message bus daemon. You could pick up inspiration from the 
> sorts of things they test, but they would not be directly useful for 
> testing interop with a third-party implementation.
> 
> The tests for GDBus and the deprecated dbus-glib, and most of the tests 
> for dbus-python, are similarly more focused on being regression tests 
> than being interop tests.

Ok.
> 


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