Commit e1181261dfd80b3046f1219e8fcfbb99707288f5
2010-06-06T18:38:27
Overhauled and modularized tests in `instspc.test'. The test `instspc.test' was way too big and fragile. Its running time was very long. It also produced a log that was nearly unreadable due to its length, making it very difficult to find out the reason for failures. Also, it was too much monolithic, with a single (maybe spurious) failure in a corner case causing the whole test to fail (even if everything worked as expected in the other 99% of cases). The present change should solve these problems, by separating `instspc.test' into many smaller, self-contained, auto-generated tests. * tests/instspc.test: Removed. * tests/instspc-tests.sh: New script, fullfilling a double role: 1. it generates a Makefile.am snippet `tests/instspc-tests.am', containing the definition of a list of new tests which will take over the older `instspc.test', and 2. it is sourced by said generated tests with proper parameters pre-set, to run the "meat" of the checks. This apparent abuse is indeed required because the test generation code and test execution code are inevitably interwined. * tests/Makefile.am ($(srcdir)/instspc-tests.am): Include this snippet, which (among the other things) defines ... (instspc_tests): ... this new macro, containing the list of the newly generated `instspc*.test' tests, and ... (instspc_xfail_tests): ... this new macro, containing the list of the `instspc*.test' tests expected to fail. ($(instspc_tests)): New rule, generates the `instspc*.test' tests. ($(instspc_tests:.test=.log)): New rule, registers the dependency of all `instspc*.test' tests on the `instspc-tests.sh' script. (TESTS): Add `$(instspc_tests)', remove `instspc.test'. (XFAIL_TESTS): Add `$(xfail_instspc_tests)'. (EXTRA_DIST): Distribute instspc-tests.sh. (MAINTAINERCLEANFILES): Added $(instspc_tests). Other minor cosmetic changes. * bootstrap: Generate instspc-tests.am. * tests/.gitignore: Updated.