Unit testing approach for nginx modules

[Anatoli Marinov]

Hi Maxim,
How these tests could be run? Do I need something special installed?

On Mon, Nov 23, 2015 at 2:42 AM, Maxim Dounin <mdounin at mdounin.ru> wrote:

> Hello!
>
> On Sat, Nov 21, 2015 at 09:40:57PM +0000, Ritesh Jha wrote:
>
> > Hello everyone,
> > We are developing nginx modules to implement few usecases in our
> > product. Most of the other usecases cases have been implemented
> > using Java. At my office we follow TDD for Java development. TDD
> > for Java development is easy due to availability of unit-testing
> > and mocking frameworks. We are wondering if we can follow TDD
> > for development of nginx modules as well. We have tried couple
> > of unit-testing frameworks for C (Unity and CMocka) but we have
> > found it very difficult to write useful testcases using these
> > frameworks.
> >
> > Can you please suggest a suitable approach? Also if unit testing
> > is not the way to go, then what should be the approach for
> > developing, testing and maintaining large nginx modules?
>
> We have a test suite we use in nginx development, available here:
>
> http://hg.nginx.org/nginx-tests
>
> It was originally written by me for testing both nginx itself and
> my modules for nginx.  And example use in a module can be seen
> here:
>
> http://mdounin.ru/hg/ngx_http_bytes_filter_module/file/57365655ee44/t
>
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