I wanted to add a few features and fix a few bugs in the regression test
driver, and I ended up re-writing most of it. I'd like to offer it for
testing.

Features/fixes:

* Use one driver script for both standalone test and test against running
  installation.

* Also use only one script for both parallel and serial test schedule,
  allow adding of other schedules (e.g., running a lot of simple tests all
  in parallel).

* Return useful test summary (x of y tests passed) and exit status, to be
  run via `make check' (GNU makefile standards)

* Add option to ignore some failed tests (e.g., "random") for purposes of
  the exit status

* Add flag for debug mode

* Avoid use of `make install prefix=xxx', which can (a) yield the test
  suite unusable if you overrode specific installation directories,
  (b) corrupt your files with wrong hard-coded paths.

* Feable support for running the test suite outside of the source tree,
  for binary packages. (incomplete)


What I would like to do is to commit it in parallel with the existing
infrastructure, and if it works out well we can remove the other stuff
before release.


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Peter Eisentraut      peter_e@gmx.net       http://yi.org/peter-e/


Wed, 20 Sep 2000 19:38:19 +0200 (CEST)
Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net>
Improved regression test driver