Hi Monty!
Michael Widenius wrote:
> Hi!
>
>>>>>> "Amit" == Amit K Saha <Amit> writes:
>
> Amit> Hi!
> Amit> According to
> Amit> http://dev.mysql.com/doc/mysqltest/en/test-framework-components.html,
> Amit> 'mysql_client_test program is used for testing aspects of the MySQL
> Amit> client API that cannot be tested using mysqltest and its test language'
>
> Amit> I would like to know what those aspects are.Thanks!
>
> If you look at the mysql_client_test.c program code, this should be
> obvious :)
>
> With mysql_test, you can't test things like client timeouts, broken packages,
> wrong usage of the client api etc.
>
> Amit> Also:
>
> Amit> The other Perl scripts and C tests in the directory- 'tests' should be
> Amit> run independently- by hand? Is there no Makefile target? (Something like
> Amit> 'make test' which runs the test-suite in 'mysql-test' and 'unittest'.
>
> These are mainly scripts & programs that can be used as a start for
> writing test cases for MySQL in case of a known problem. They are not
> intended for normal build testing.
>
> Amit> I tried to use 'make install' but all it seems to do is to build
> Amit> 'mysql_client_test.c' and copies it to the 'bin' directory of the
> Amit> installation. I see no relevant target for the same in the top level
> Amit> Makefile as well.
>
> mysql_client_test is the only program in the test directory that is
> part of our test framework.
>
> Amit> Am I missing something here?
>
> Hope I was able to answer your question.
>
> Regards,
> Monty
>
Thanks for all the clarifications! Much appreciated :-)
-Amit
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