How to implement SIGHUP tests

Jeremy C. Reed jreed at isc.org
Tue May 27 14:55:13 UTC 2014


On Tue, 27 May 2014, Marcin Siodelski wrote:

> 3. As Tomek pointed out, the shell scripts don't provide any framework
> for testing (nothing similar to gtest) which makes it more reasonable to
> implement our tests in C++ and within gtest framework. But, python based
> tests that we already have don't have any framework either and we used
> to live with it. So, is lack of framework really a problem?

Maybe not a problem.

By the way, ISC DHCP uses ATF (rewritten and rebranded as Kyua) which 
provides toolkit for both C++ and POSIX Shell.

I think we should use shell for simple tests and not C++ (and definitely 
no Python in this context).


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