Please help: How to test/hack Zsh and find bugs?

Please help: How to test/hack Zsh and find bugs?

[MicoJade]

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Hi,
I want to know how does a developer(say a Zsh application developer who actually works on Zsh or port Zsh) do testing for Zsh either by unit design testing, or hack testing for a Zsh release before it finally is released? 

Are there any classical test cases that we can use to do the testing for the Zsh and find bugs for Zsh or the ported Zsh on specific OS platform?

Please give me some ideas as I am totally new with this. Thank you in adavance! I'd like to do some testing for it but have no idea of where to start from.

David

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Re: Please help: How to test/hack Zsh and find bugs?

[Peter Stephenson]

On Wed, 23 Jul 2008 16:50:08 +0000
MicoJade <micojade@hotmail.com> wrote:
> I want to know how does a developer(say a Zsh application developer
> who actually works on Zsh or port Zsh) do testing for Zsh either by
> unit design testing, or hack testing for a Zsh release before it
> finally is released? 
> 
> Are there any classical test cases that we can use to do the testing
> for the Zsh and find bugs for Zsh or the ported Zsh on specific OS
> platform?

You should find that the test suite in the Test subdirectory of the
zsh distribution is a good starting point.  If those are passing, there
can't be much wrong.  There main gap in the coverage is purely
interactive features such as job control.

-- 
Peter Stephenson <p.w.stephenson@ntlworld.com>
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