[Gluster-devel] spliting tests/bugs?

[Atin Mukherjee]

On 12/26/2014 02:38 PM, Emmanuel Dreyfus wrote:
> Hello
> 
> There are around 300 regression tests, 250 being in tests/bugs. Running
> partial set of tests/bugs is not easy because this is a flat directory
> with almost all tests inside. 
> 
> IMO it would be valuable to make partial test/bugs easier: this would 
> let me run what works for NetBSD, but Linux regression tests would 
> also benefit itn since it would allow the use of mulitple build 
> hosts for a single commit, each running a subset of the tests for 
> a quicker result.
> 
> Hence I suggest we split tests/bugs into subdirectories. For instance
> using the git file creeation time, we could have:
> tests/bugs/2012Q1 => 1 entries
> tests/bugs/2012Q3 => 6 entries
> tests/bugs/2012Q4 => 54 entries
> tests/bugs/2013Q1 => 50 entries
> tests/bugs/2013Q2 => 34 entries
> tests/bugs/2013Q3 => 15 entries
> tests/bugs/2013Q4 => 22 entries
> tests/bugs/2014Q1 => 18 entries
> tests/bugs/2014Q2 => 30 entries
> tests/bugs/2014Q3 => 16 entries
> tests/bugs/2014Q4 => 15 entries
> 
> Any opinion?
+1, Makes sense to me! However I would love to have component wise sub
directories for eg - glusterd, dht, afr etc. IMO, this would be a better
way to maintain the test cases. What say?

~Atin
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