Re: Test code is worth the space

On Wed, Aug 12, 2015 at 9:24 PM, Stephen Frost <sfrost(at)snowman(dot)net> 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.

Why not the PG license? It would be nicer if we didn't have to worry
about license contamination here.

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