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authorColin Walters <walters@verbum.org>2008-05-30 21:05:48 -0400
committerColin Walters <walters@verbum.org>2008-05-30 21:05:48 -0400
commit81c32a52575ad0e1a831d4bea76f2df7d2b0cd22 (patch)
tree6004d612e076e351d59574c40bca96b5e3c8b689 /HACKING
parentef41cd31100097636523088ec7f115e432366956 (diff)
downloaddbus-81c32a52575ad0e1a831d4bea76f2df7d2b0cd22.tar.gz
Tweak HACKING to describe test/name-test briefly
* HACKING: Describe test/name-test.
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@@ -193,6 +193,11 @@ test/break-loader
A test that tries to break the message loader by passing it randomly
created invalid messages.
+test/name-test/*
+This is a suite of programs which are run with a temporary session bus.
+If your test involves multiple processes communicating, your best bet
+is to add a test in here.
+
"make check" runs all the deterministic test programs (i.e. not break-loader).
"make check-coverage" is available if you configure with --enable-gcov and
@@ -221,7 +226,7 @@ rules are:
- regardless of reviews, to commit a patch:
- make check must pass
- the test suite must be extended to cover the new code
- as much as reasonably feasible
+ as much as reasonably feasible (see Tests above)
- the patch has to follow the portability, security, and
style guidelines
- the patch should as much as reasonable do one thing,