Kyua: Weekly status report

• Released ATF 0.15 and imported it into NetBSD.
• Added support for integer/float printf-like modifiers to the utils::format module. These will be required to beautify size and time quantities in the reports and error messages.
• I spent way more time than I wanted on this. At first, I attempted to use std::snprintf to parse and process the format modifiers for integers and floats so that I could avoid implementing a custom parser for them. While this sounds like a cool idea (yay, code reuse!), it resulted in a ugly, nasty and horrible mess. In the end, I just ended up implementing custom parsing of the formatters, which was way easier and "good enough" for Kyua's needs.
• Started work on backporting ATF's new require.memory property into Kyua. This needs having a way to parse and format byte quantities in user-friendly forms (e.g. 1k, 2m, etc.)... hence the previous work on utils::format!
• Set up a Google+ Page for Kyua. I have no idea what to use it for yet. Maybe the status reports should go in there. Ideas?

Kyua: Weekly status report

Finally some progress!

• Backported the require.memory changes in NetBSD to the ATF upstream code, and extended them to support OS X as well.
• Backported local pkgsrc patches to ATF into the upstream code.
• Started to prepare ATF 0.15 by doing test runs of NetBSD/i386 and NetBSD/amd64 and by building the code in various Linux distributions. Several build bugs fixed along the way.
• Spent a long while trying to figure out how the Fedora package maintainer procedure has changed since 3 years ago to create packages for ATF, Lutok and Kyua. Not very successful yet unfortunately.

Nothing on the Kyua front, but getting a new release of ATF out of the door has higher priority now!

Kyua: Weekly status report

It's that time of the week again (although delayed by over a day). Unfortunately, no progress either during past week. Being on semi-vacations doesn't leave much "free time"... However, I traveled back home yesterday and getting back to my daily routine should give some spare time!

Kyua: Weekly status report

Happy new year!

No activity past week as I was completely away from the computer.

Kyua: Weekly status report

The post title should mention ATF instead of Kyua... but I'm keeping the usual one for consistency:

• Integrated timestamps into the XML and HTML reports generated by atf-report. These should soon show up in the continuous tests of NetBSD.
• Work on integrating the use of POSIX timers into atf-run after Christos Zoulas performed these changes in the NetBSD tree. The result is quite awful because I need to keep compatibility with systems that do not provide the "new" interface...

Kyua: Weekly status report

Unfortunately, not much activity this week due to travel reasons. Anyway, some work went in:

• Preliminary code to generate HTML reports from kyua report. This is easy peasy but boring. The current code was written as a proof of concept and is awful, hence why it was not committed. I'm now working in cleaning it up.
• Backported test program and test case timestamping into ATF based on a patch from Paul Goyette. This is a very useful feature to have, and it will have to be added to Kyua later. (It has always been planned to be added, but have not had the time yet.)

Kyua: Weekly status report

Some significant improvements this week:

• Finally submitted the code to store and load full test case definitions. This is quite tricky (and currently very, very ugly) but it works and it will allow the reports to include all kinds of information from the test cases.
• Removed the Atffiles from the tree; yay! For a long time, I had been using atf-run to run broken tests because atf-run allowed me to watch the output of the test case being debugged. However, this has been unnecessary since the introduction of the debug command in late August. I now feel confident that these files can go. (And debug is much more powerful than atf-run because you can target a single test case instead of a whole test program.)
• Some crazy work attempting to hide the name of SQLite types from the sqlite::statement interface. I've been only able to do so somewhat decently for bind, but all my attempts at doing the same with column result in horrible code so far. So no, such changes have not been submitted.
• As of a few minutes ago, kyua test now records the output of the test cases (stdout and stderr) into the database. These will be invaluable for debugging of test cases, particularly when the reports are posted online.
• Some preliminary work at implementing HTML reports. This, however, has not received much progress due to the previous item requiring completion.

I'm quite excited at this point. HTML reports are a few weeks away at most. Once that happens, it will be time to start considering replacing the atf-run / atf-report duo for good, particularly within NetBSD. This will certainly not be easy... but all the work that has gone into Kyua so far has this sole goal!