[Gluster-devel] Translator test harness

[Jeff Darcy]

Last week, Luis and I had a discussion about unit testing translator 
code.  Unfortunately, the structure of a translator - a plugin with many 
entry points which interact in complex and instance-specific ways - is 
one that is notoriously challenging.  Really, the only way to do it is 
to have some sort of a task-specific harness, with at least the 
following parts:

* Code above to inject requests.

* Code below to provide mocked replies to the translator's own requests.

* Code "on the side" to track things like resources or locks acquired 
and released.

This would be an ambitious undertaking, but not so ambitious that it's 
beyond reason.  The benefits should be obvious.  At this point, what I'm 
most interested in is volunteers to help define the requirements and 
scope so that we can propose this as a feature or task for some future 
GlusterFS release.  Who's up for it?