autopkgtest - automated package testing

[Scott James Remnant]

On Mon, 2007-03-05 at 12:16 +0000, Ian Jackson wrote:

> Scott James Remnant writes ("Re: autopkgtest - automated package testing"):
> > They both follow GNU standard conventions and the test suite is run with
> > "make check" from a built source tree.
> > 
> > How would these be integrated into autopkgtest?
> 
> This is a good question which unfortunately doesn't have a
> straightforward answer.
> 
> `make check' runs the just-built software in the build tree.  You need
> to override it somehow to make it run the installed version of the
> program.
> 
But that would involve installing the test suite, no?

Not the most ideal thing to do.

> Which two packages ?  I'd be happy to take a quick look and suggest
> approaches.
> 
Upstart is the immediate example.  "make check" builds and runs the
binaries listed in TESTS, the source of which are found under test/*

Scott
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