linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] lib: add basic KUnit test for lib/math

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Message-ID: <20201022191248.GP4077@smile.fi.intel.com>
Date:   Thu, 22 Oct 2020 22:12:48 +0300
From:   Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@...ux.intel.com>
To:     Daniel Latypov <dlatypov@...gle.com>
Cc:     David Gow <davidgow@...gle.com>,
        Brendan Higgins <brendanhiggins@...gle.com>,
        Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        "open list:KERNEL SELFTEST FRAMEWORK" 
        <linux-kselftest@...r.kernel.org>,
        Shuah Khan <skhan@...uxfoundation.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] lib: add basic KUnit test for lib/math

On Thu, Oct 22, 2020 at 10:10:38PM +0300, Andy Shevchenko wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 22, 2020 at 09:26:45AM -0700, Daniel Latypov wrote:
> > On Thu, Oct 22, 2020 at 8:06 AM Andy Shevchenko
> > <andriy.shevchenko@...ux.intel.com> wrote:
> > > On Wed, Oct 21, 2020 at 10:47:50AM -0700, Daniel Latypov wrote:

...

> > > Summarize this, please create usable documentation first.
> > 
> > Sounds good.
> > I'm generally wary people not reading the docs, and of documentation
> > examples becoming bitrotted faster than actual code.
> > But so far KUnit seems to be doing relatively well on both fronts.
> 
> Dunno. As I told, I have created first unit test based on documentation (okay,
> I looked at the code, but you may read this as ratio was 90% doc / 10% existing
> code).

Side note: some cases are not described in doc and produced "interesting"
results that I have to look a lot into KUnit Python wrapper to fix bugs in it.

You may find my patches in the KUnit mailing list.

-- 
With Best Regards,
Andy Shevchenko