Re: gdb testsuit

[Andrew Cagney <cagney at gnu dot org>]

Andrew Cagney wrote:
> Roopesh Kohad wrote:
>
> > Dear All,
> >       I am testing gdb on my company's subsystem and have GCC/GNU
> > testsuite with us. I want to write few tests of my own and insert in
> > the testsuite so that it runs like other tests i.e. I do not have to
> > run and analyze them seperately. I tried but got caught in the maze of
> > expect, Tcl, dejagnu. I only know following things:-
> > 1. Runtest.exp is the main test driver.
> > 2. The expect "test" source files are inside various directories in
> > ~/testsuite/gdb.* directories.
>
>
> Yes.
>
> > What would be a step-by-step approach inserting a test case? 
>
>
> By default all tests in those directories are run.  For the most part 
> people create new testcases by copying old ones.  A good simple example 
> is gdb.base/step.exp, I'd start with that, copy it to a new file, and go 
> from there.  It can be run on its own using "cd build/gdb && make check 
> RUNTESTFLAGS=newname.exp"

s/step.exp/start.exp/

Andrew

> BTW, what exactly are you testing?  Improving GDB's test coverage is 
> always a good thing.
>
> Andrew