Re: Test code is worth the space

On 8/12/15 9:24 PM, Stephen Frost wrote:
> * Michael Paquier (michael(dot)paquier(at)gmail(dot)com) wrote:
>> On Thu, Aug 13, 2015 at 5:54 AM, Stephen Frost wrote:
>>> The regression tests included in pgBackRest (available here:
>>> https://github.com/pgmasters/backrest) go through a number of different
>>> recovery tests. There's vagrant configs for a few different VMs too
>>> (CentOS 6, CentOS 7, Ubuntu 12.04 and Ubuntu 14.04) which is what we've
>>> been testing.
>>> We're working to continue expanding those tests and will also be adding
>>> tests for replication and promotion in the future. Eventually, we plan
>>> to write a buildfarm module for pgBackRest, to allow it to be run in the
>>> same manner as the regular buildfarm animals with the results posted.
>>
>> Interesting. Do you mind if I pick up from it some ideas for the
>> in-core replication test suite based on TAP stuff? That's still in the
>> works for the next CF.
>
> Certainly don't mind at all, entirely open source under the MIT
> license.

Absolutely, and I'm always look to add new tests so some
cross-pollination may be beneficial as well.

Currently the regression tests work with 9.0 - 9.5alpha1 (and back to
8.3, actually). The pause_on_recovery_target test is currently disabled
for 9.5 and I have not implemented recovery_target_action or
recovery_target = immediate yet. I haven't tested alpha2 yet but it
should work unless catalog or other IDs have changed.

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-David
david(at)pgmasters(dot)net